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It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this could not be true, but in the swirling fog of this hellish city she almost believed it. The creatures seemed to stare at her down their warped noses from their blank and hollow eyes. And overlord of all was the winged lion - he was everywhere, watching from every plaque or pennant, ubiquitous and threatening. ↗

— Marina Fiorato

#bubonic-plague #historical-romance-fiction #medical-history #venice #architecture

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#appropriate #discipline #inventions #player #such

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. ↗

— George Konrád

#trauma #war #architecture

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#birthright #body #coordinates #every #human

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#autobiographical #bring #i #i write #into

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#gift #grows #hide #lies #must

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#concentrated #contribute #country #example #his

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#forget #making #never #never forget #policy

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence. ↗

— Vano Merabishvili

#does #exclude #give #give me #liberty

But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie. ↗