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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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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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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You feel a lot of rage when someone dies. I have a lot of faith in nature, but it can be cruel.
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Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
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I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.
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If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.
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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.
