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- Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
- Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded…
- The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the…
- The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who…
- To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central…
- A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in…
- I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other…
- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have…
- Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
- A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone…
- Please fix. This quote is actually by Robert Graves. (Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10122/pg10122.txt) When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting, Chin to knee…
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