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I Deliberately Made An Effort Not To Become An Expert On The Ballet.

I Used To Work Very Long Hours. Then I Started To Realize That The Stuff That I Was Writing In The Late Afternoons, I Was Generally Throwing Out. So I Quit Earlier Than I Used To.

The Moment The Curtain Rose On That First Ballet, I Knew Something Wonderful And New Had Come Into My Life. I Can Still See The First Scene. The Ballet Was Divertimento No. 15

As You Get Older, You Sometimes Feel That It's Harder And Harder To Get Something New And Wonderful To Come Into Your Life.

To My Mind, The Prose In A Non-fiction Work That's Going To Endure Has To Be Of The Same Quality As The Prose In A Work Of Fiction That Endures.