Men die but an idea does not.
ALAN JAY LERNERThere even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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