W. H. Auden Quotes
A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.

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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I love improvising.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.
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I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
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You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?
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There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.
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A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.