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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No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.
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We must all sleep alone in the tomb, my love, but in life we are joined as one flesh - as our children attest.
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And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.
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The way you live your life depends on you.
