No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. - "W. H. Auden"

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden

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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
- W. H. Auden
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
- W. H. Auden