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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
W. H. AUDEN
Jane Heard.
ONE
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
PETER PORTER
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as...
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
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Life's the greates torture sould feel in hell, In hell: that they must live, and cannot die.
JOHN WEBSTER
You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION
Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE
We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE
If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION
You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION
do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE
Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE
I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE
If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE
Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE
big, medium and small.
DAY ONE
Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE
You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION
Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION
You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION
Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
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Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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The external tanks are okay. The initial assessment is good for them. Just one of them had a little ...
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Before you reach heaven, you have to walk through hell.
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The product we sell is not near as important as the way people feel when they walk through that door...
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One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.
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Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
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We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
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One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
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Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; on...
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Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.
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Eternity? ... That is one hell of a movie.
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Walk beside...
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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose....
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Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness...
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one...
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You go into some churches and walk in and no one says 'hello' to you. That is not true here. The cam...
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Every once in a while, people step up. They rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you. And ...
ONE TREE HILL
What kids are doing are killing themselves
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's c...
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.
AMIT KALANTRI
Not that a luxury tax would work, but we're not going to walk away from the table just because there...
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Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it goin...
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One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there'...
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An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
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The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants,...
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A walk?" said Catharine.
"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri...
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In one self place, for where we are is hell,
A...
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd in one self place; but where we are is hell,
And wher...
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. AUDEN
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who cl...
W. H. AUDEN
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrat...
W. H. AUDEN
There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them...
W. H. AUDEN
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a s...
W. H. AUDEN
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible...
W. H. AUDEN
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am fr...
W. H. AUDEN
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. AUDEN
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which...
W. H. AUDEN
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'l...
W. H. AUDEN
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. AUDEN
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. ...
W. H. AUDEN
We must love one another or die.
W. H. AUDEN
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country becaus...
W. H. AUDEN
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
W. H. AUDEN
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
W. H. AUDEN
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich ma...
W. H. AUDEN
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. AUDEN
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercours...
W. H. AUDEN
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefe...
W. H. AUDEN
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life...
W. H. AUDEN
How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so hig...
W. H. AUDEN
Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a f...
W. H. AUDEN
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. AUDEN
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in...
W. H. AUDEN
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual s...
W. H. AUDEN
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
W. H. AUDEN
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...
W. H. AUDEN
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. AUDEN
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willful...
W. H. AUDEN
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when ...
W. H. AUDEN
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. AUDEN
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of...
W. H. AUDEN
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself...
W. H. AUDEN
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scien...
W. H. AUDEN
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their trivial...
W. H. AUDEN
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of ho...
W. H. AUDEN
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to...
W. H. AUDEN
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. AUDEN
Funeral Blues


W. H. AUDEN
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so con...
W. H. AUDEN
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
W. H. AUDEN
Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
W. H. AUDEN
And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to ...
W. H. AUDEN
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, th...
W. H. AUDEN
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular c...
W. H. AUDEN
It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people b...
W. H. AUDEN
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. AUDEN
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
W. H. AUDEN
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would cal...
W. H. AUDEN
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, ...
W. H. AUDEN
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet dev...
W. H. AUDEN
Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to...
W. H. AUDEN
Cancer is a curious thing...
Nobody knows what the cause is,
Though some pretend they do;
I...
W. H. AUDEN
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make ...
W. H. AUDEN
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his...
W. H. AUDEN
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
W. H. AUDEN
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their aff...
W. H. AUDEN
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption....
W. H. AUDEN
You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
W. H. AUDEN
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a m...
W. H. AUDEN
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good ...
W. H. AUDEN
But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided.
A continent for better or worse divided. W. H. AUDEN
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all ...
W. H. AUDEN
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they s...
W. H. AUDEN
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the ...
W. H. AUDEN
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father h...
W. H. AUDEN
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
W. H. AUDEN
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in ...
W. H. AUDEN
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most pa...
W. H. AUDEN
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
W. H. AUDEN
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will...
W. H. AUDEN
Now is the age of anxiety.
W. H. AUDEN
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the ot...
W. H. AUDEN
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
W H AUDEN
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in whi...
W. H. AUDEN
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Pa...
W. H. AUDEN
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. AUDEN
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
W. H. AUDEN
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. AUDEN
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the m...
W. H. AUDEN
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
W. H. AUDEN
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. AUDEN
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. AUDEN
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as...
W. H. AUDEN
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology ...
W. H. AUDEN
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into ...
W. H. AUDEN
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, ...
W. H. AUDEN
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Pa...
W. H. AUDEN
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. AUDEN
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
W. H. AUDEN
Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. AUDEN

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