William Empson Quotes
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The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
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It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
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Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult…
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Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
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The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
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This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.
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Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more…
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
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The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
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The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
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My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
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You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
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