“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Speech at the Somerville Club, February 27, 1895
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
— E.M. Forster, book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View
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