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Thinking Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two…
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down…
- 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…
- It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings…
- 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…
- Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
- The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,…
- Let all your thinks be thanks.
- Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do…
- One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
- 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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