Lotus Magic Opera

Famous quotes containing the words lotus, magic and/or opera:

“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)