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Book Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
- If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives…
- There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If…
- Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer…
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly…
- Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only…
- There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
- Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only…
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