T. S. Eliot Quotes, Communication Quotes, Simple Quotes

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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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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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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