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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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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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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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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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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'You too will marry a boy I choose,' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter. Lata avoided the maternal imperative by looking around the great lamp-lit garden of Prem Nivas. The wedding-guests were gathered on the lawn. 'Hmm,' she said. This annoyed her mother further.
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I love the characters you can build upon when you wear different things. You know, sometimes, I'll want to be girly and wear tulle on a Tuesday, and sometimes I wanna be like Kim Kardashian and wear black leather head-to-toe.
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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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?
