105 Quotations by W. H. Auden
- 81. The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in ...
- 82. The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a s ...
- 83. The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
- 84. The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as ...
- 85. The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet dev ...
- 86. The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most pa ...
- 87. The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the othe ...
- 88. The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life ...
- 89. The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when ...
- 90. The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
- 91. There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them ...
- 92. To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrat ...
- 93. To save your world you asked this man to die;
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- 94. To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life, the word 'Intellectual' ...
- 95. We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
- 96. We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country, becau ...
- 97. We must love one another or die.
- 98. What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercours ...
- 99. What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed li ...
- 100. When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into ...
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