Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

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

—Virgil Thomson

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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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The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them.

—Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

—Richard Feynman

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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

—Artemus Ward

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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

—David M. Ogilvy

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When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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