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" For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? "
W. H. Auden
Forgotten
Feel
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" Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. "
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Ignore
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Choice
" Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. "
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Place
" 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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I Can
Love
Me
" What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. "
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Media
New
" We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. "
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Where
Sunny
Shy
" It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "
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More
Art
Sad
" Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. "
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Table
Always
Bed
" I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. "
W. H. Auden
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Mountain
River
" 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. "
W. H. Auden
People
Short
Good
" The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. "
W. H. Auden
Happen
Money
Race
" Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. "
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Friends
Differences
Opinion
" It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. "
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Talent
Know
Good
" Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. "
W. H. Auden
Never
Aim
Always
" Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. "
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Other
Than
Cooks
" The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. "
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Known
Find
Cannot
" Music is the best means we have of digesting time. "
W. H. Auden
Means
Time
Music
" Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. "
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Picnic
Sound
Death
" A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. "
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Sleep
Professor
Who
" History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. "
W. H. Auden
Answers
History
Questions
" Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. "
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Love
Without
Water
" Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. "
W. H. Auden
Evil
Good
Imagine
" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "
W. H. Auden
Bless
God
God Bless
" Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. "
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Breaking
Our
Dead
" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "
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Times
Us
Joy
" You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. "
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Know
America
You
" All that we are not stares back at what we are. "
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" A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. "
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Love
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Poet
" Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. "
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Mist
Happy
Heavy
" No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. "
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Games
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Innocent
" 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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Pushing
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