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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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" When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. "

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" All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. "

" Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. "

" All that we are not stares back at what we are. "

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" For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? "

" 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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" A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. "

" History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. "

" 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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Love

" To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? "

" No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. "

" It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. "

" Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. "

" No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. "

" Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. "

" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "

" Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. "

" Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. "

" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "

" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "

" Now is the age of anxiety. "

" 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' "

" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "

" My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. "

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Left

" Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. "

" If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. "

" A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. "

" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "

" Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. "

" Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. "