| Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| Humor is also a way of saying something serious. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| You are the music while the music lasts. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| Humankind cannot bear very much reality. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| Humankind cannot stand very much reality. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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| Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. |
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- T.S. Eliot |
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