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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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