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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As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
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Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
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A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.
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A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
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I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my face, jumping around and asking if I needed help. It had no understanding of my emotions and had zero empathy. That got me interested in this idea of tech being responsive to our emotions.
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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.
