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" You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. "
W. H. Auden
You
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Owe
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" It's 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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" Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. "
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" One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. "
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" Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "
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" A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. "
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" Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. "
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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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" 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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" Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. "
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" All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. "
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" 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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" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "
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" Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. "
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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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" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "
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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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" No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. "
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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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" 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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" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "
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