W. H. Auden Quotes
I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?
Quotes to Explore
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.
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The only thing about kissing anyone on screen is that forced intimacy is never pleasant. If you don't want to be kissing someone, it's hard to get over that barrier, and so there's a reluctance to be that close to someone.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.
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I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?
