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Results of search for Author: W. H. Auden - Page 1 of 3
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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False enchantment can last a lifetime.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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