Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
You have to see the sex act comically, as a child. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Earth, receive an honored guest William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
''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. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It takes little talent to see what is under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in what direction to point that organ. - Wystan Hugh Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden