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Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.


Robert Anton Wilson

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ANTON CHEKHOV We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when yo...
ANTON CHEKHOV Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas do...
ANTON CHEKHOV The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squab...
ANTON CHEKHOV No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the...
ANTON CHEKHOV To advise is not to compel.
ANTON CHEKHOV Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV I don’t feel right about money. Remember, Anisim brought me new roubles and half roubles before th...
ANTON CHEKHOV To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow...
ANTON CHEKHOV Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Pete...
ANTON CHEKHOV Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chast...
ANTON CHEKHOV They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...
ANTON CHEKHOV The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
ANTON SEIDL Of course, experience strengthens one later.
ANTON SEIDL Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
ANTON SEIDL It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing th...
ANTON SEIDL I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparent...
ANTON SEIDL I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German ar...
ANTON SEIDL Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real ...
ANTON SEIDL Composers are not all good conductors.
ANTON SEIDL America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music school...
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