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• I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart, asking advice as to how to compose a symphony.
  Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and that it would be better to start with something simpler....
• The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form.
  They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. -- Edward Abbey...
• A young man wrote to Mozart and said: Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies.
  Can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started....
• The patient went to his doctor for a checkup, and the doctor wrote out a prescription for him in his usual illegible writing.
  The patient put it in his pocket, but he forgot to have it filled....
• A Mahler symphony is full of surprises--but each surprise, on second hearing, turns out to be an *inevitable* surprise.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote "The Golden Ass". -- Edward Abbey
• Perfection is a minor virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• The mind is everything," wrote Proust. No doubt true, when you're dead from the neck down.
  -- Edward Abbey...