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Away Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
- To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to…
- The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
- If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will…
- To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away…
- In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
- Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The…
- The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife
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- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
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- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius