I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

—Virgil Thomson

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About Virgil Thomson

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Virgil Garnett Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and...

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

—Virgil Thomson

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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

—Virgil Thomson

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When we grow old, there can only be one regret—not to have given enough of ourselves.

—Eleonora Duse

I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

—J.D. Robb in Innocent in Death

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Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade.

—H.M. Ward in Demon Kissed

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People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

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Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

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