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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As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
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I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.
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Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
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Yours, my love, is the right human face.
