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And who shall say — whatever disenchantment follows — that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple tree, the singing, and the gold?

—Thomas Wolfe

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

—Robert Benchley

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I am all for singing. If I had had children, I should have hounded them into choirs and choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

—Sylvia Townsend Warner

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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

—Fred Allen

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

—Ed Gardner

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My heart is like a singing bird.

—Christina Rossetti

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

—W. H. Auden

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