"Sincerity is technique." — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Sincerity is technique."
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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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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has…
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he…
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It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become…
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
— Dirk Benedict
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As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my…
— Justin Bieber
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The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
— Giotto di Bondone
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If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding…
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Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first…
— Richard Branson
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just…
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