W. H. Auden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
