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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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

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I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.

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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

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If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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