Century Quote by Louis Dudek

“Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.”

Louis Dudek

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The best live among us in disguise.

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A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

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In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to…

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

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Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

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Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

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Art is anything people do with distinction.

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The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

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The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

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The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and…

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The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

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The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been…

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

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At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

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