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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. "
W. H. Auden
People
Short
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" History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. "
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" All that we are not stares back at what we are. "
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" No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. "
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" A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. "
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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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" When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. "
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" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "
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" No hero is mortal till he dies. "
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" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "
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" Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. "
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" 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. "
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" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "
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" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "
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" Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. "
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" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "
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" Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. "
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" My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. "
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" 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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" The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. "
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Eye
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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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" Now is the age of anxiety. "
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" All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. "
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" May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? "
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" Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. "
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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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" Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. "
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" 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 real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. "
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" A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. "
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" It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. "
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