Edwin Muir Quotes
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
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Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
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Ah, a German and a genius! A prodigy, admit him!
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At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.
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To me Christianity was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
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Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.
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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
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The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.
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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
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If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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I never told my love vocally still.
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My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.
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The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.
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It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.
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Yours, my love, is the right human face.
