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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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In my beginning is my end.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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