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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. Auden
Be clean, be tidy, oil the lock, Weed the garden, wind the clock; Remember the Two.
W. H. Auden
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden
Over the heather the west wind blows, I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose. The rain comes pattering out of the sky, I'm a Wall soldier and I don't know why.
W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
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Related Authors: Jorge Luis Borges - Octavio Paz - Robert Browning - e. e. cummings - William Congreve - Louis Aragon - Thomas Gray - Lucretius
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The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
Jim Broadbent
I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
Sigourney Weaver
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
Robin Yount
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
More Quotes from W. H. Auden:
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. Auden
Be clean, be tidy, oil the lock, Weed the garden, wind the clock; Remember the Two.
W. H. Auden
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden
Over the heather the west wind blows, I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose. The rain comes pattering out of the sky, I'm a Wall soldier and I don't know why.
W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
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Related Authors: Jorge Luis Borges - Octavio Paz - Robert Browning - e. e. cummings - William Congreve - Louis Aragon - Thomas Gray - Lucretius
Based on Topics: Experience Quotes, Literature Quotes, Poetry Quotes
Based on Keywords: consciences
The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
Jim Broadbent
I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
Sigourney Weaver
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
Robin Yount