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    37 Pieces Of Life Advice From Sondheim

    Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim writes musicals with depth, wit and sage advice.

    1. "Sooner or later you're gonna be fine"

    2. "Love ain't solid land, it's just sand, nothing but sand"

    3. " We choose things and then we lose things"

    4. " So old friends, now it's time to start growing up. Taking charge seeing things as they are. Facing facts- not escaping them, Still with dreams just reshaping them, Growing up"

    5. "And you think of all of the things you've seen and you wish that you could live inbetween and you're back again only different than before. After the sky"

    6. " With so little to be sure of, if there's anything at all. If there's anything at all, I'm sure of here and now and us together"

    7. "If it's saturday night and you are single. You sit with a paper and fight the urge to mingle and home is a place where you gotta go back alone. Home is a place where the future looks black alone"

    8. "Why keep concealing everything you're feeling? Say it to her. What can you lose?"

    9. "The world stops, the heart dies. The wind counts the lost goodbyes. There is no other way."

    10. "The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not. You have to move on"

    11. " Please don't cough, it tends to throw the actors off... As for applause please when there's a pause please. So please don't fart, there's very little air and this is art"

    12. "Marry me a little, love me just enough. Cry but not too often, play but not too rough. Keep a tender distance so we'll both be free. That's the way it ought to be"

    13. " We took for granted a lot and still I say it could have kept on growing instead of just kept on. We had a good thing going... going...gone. "

    14. "So many people laugh at what they don't know. Well, that's their concern"

    15. "Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat"

    16. " It's the little things you share together, swear together, wear together that make perfect relationships. It's concerts you enjoy together, neighbours you annoy together, children you destroy together that keep marriage a joy"

    17. "You're sorry grateful, regretful happy. Why look for answers where none occur? You'll always be what you always were, which has nothing to do with, all to do with her"

    18. " It's a city of strangers- some come to work, some to play- a city of strangers"

    19. "A wedding?" What's a wedding? It's a prehistoric ritual where everybody promises fidelity forever which is maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard! "

    20. "So here's to the girls on the go. Everybody tries. Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know. Everybody dies"

    21. "Somebody need me too much. Somebody know me too well. Somebody pull me up short and put me through hell and give me support for being alive"

    22. " There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and its filled with people who are filled with shit and the vermin of the world inhabit it."

    23. "Don't you know, silly man, half the fun is to plan the plan? All good things come to those who can wait"

    24. "We all deserve to die, even you, Mrs.Lovett, even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief. For the rest of us, death will be a relief. We all deserve to die"

    25. "The history of the world my sweet is who gets eaten and who gets to eat. But fortunately it's all clear that everybody goes down well with beer"

    26. " How could I leave you? Sweetheart I have to confess. Could I leave you? Yes. But will I leave you? Will I leave you? Guess!"

    27. "Never judge a lady by her lover, it isn't a reliable guide"

    28. "Make the most of your music and who knows? You may even get to like what you compose"

    29. " Too many people muddle sex with mere desire. And when emotion intervenes the nets descend. It should on no account perplex, or worse inspire. It's a pleasurable means to a measurable end"

    30. "Fidelity is more than mere display, it's what a man expects from life. Fidelity like mine to Désirée and Charlotte, my devoted wife"

    31. " Women very nearly indispensable creatures of grace. God knows the foolishness about them. But if we had to live without them, the world would surely be a poorer if purer place"

    32. "Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart"

    33. "There are mouths to be kissed before mouths to be fed"

    34. "Never wear mauve to a ball or pink"

    35. "You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that keep what you have"

    36. "Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may deceive you, you decide what's good. You decide alone. But no one is alone"

    37. "If you wanna grind it, wait till you've refined it"

    38. BONUS