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: Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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W H Auden quote- Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for...
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Beggars should be no choosers.
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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I'm not the public.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Public speaking is very easy.
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What do we mean by "the public interest?" Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.
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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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Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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