Alfred de Musset Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
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The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
