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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.


Jessye Norman

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NORMAN DOUGLAS The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of ho...
NORMAN MAILER One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes int...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
NORMAN MAILER There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
NORMAN MAILER It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
NORMAN COUSINS