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Least Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in…
- Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
- The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In…
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