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Which Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new…
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his…
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely…
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