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Fact Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can…
- Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands…
- Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
- Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a…
- Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits…
- A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world…
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- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden