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" Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. "
W. H. Auden
Self
Two
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" Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. "
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" All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. "
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" A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. "
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" Art is born of humiliation. "
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" We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. "
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" Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. "
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" Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. "
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" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "
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" To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? "
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" Now is the age of anxiety. "
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" Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "
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Him
Vain
" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. "
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Earth
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" My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. "
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Left
Like
" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "
W. H. Auden
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Poet
American
" All that we are not stares back at what we are. "
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Back
" In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. "
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Most
Believe
Double
" Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. "
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Without
Water
" The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. "
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Children
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" One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. "
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Factory
Feel
" Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. "
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" A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. "
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Maker
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" A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. "
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Love
Person
Poet
" No hero is mortal till he dies. "
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He
Dies
Hero
" Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. "
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Picnic
Sound
Death
" Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. "
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Made
Smell
" The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. "
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" Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. "
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" If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. "
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" In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. "
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