"I am not a pessimist but a pejorist……" — A. E. Housman

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• But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas… — Jamaica Kincaid
• When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love… — Marcus Mumford
• The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. — Jonah Lehrer
• Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that… — Paul Muldoon
• Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in… — David Markson
• A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another.… — John Zerzan
• Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise… — Robert Stack
• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There… — Marcus Mumford
• I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can… — Unknown Author
• One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one… — Unknown Author
• Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration.… — Bill N. Lacy
• The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and,… — George Orwell

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