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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

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Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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