"Attacking bad books is not only a waste……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we…
— Richard Branson
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I don't like attacking.
— Barbara Bush
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
— David Cameron
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe…
— Benjamin Carson
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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics…
— Pat Riley
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...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to…
— Barbara Jordan
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak…
— David Lack
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion…
— Daniel Berrigan
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