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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Education Eyes Had Hanging Liberty Out Read Time

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The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Alone Before Come Could First Had Just Knew Love Myself Nursery Poems Read Rhymes Them To Love Were Words

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The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

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Topics: Fathers Land

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An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Drinks Like Much Someone Who You

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I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Eighteen Had Just Record Straight Think I Think

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Dominion Great Hand Holds Man Name Over

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The function of posterity is to look after itself.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: After Function Itself Look Posterity

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No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Any Artistic Avoid Being Contemporaries Discoveries Freud His Honest Influence Influenced Means Necessarily Own Philosophic Pioneering Possibly Scientific Those Through Today Unconscious Work Writer Writing

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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Anywhere Artist Only Position Upright

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I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Am Bible Brought Childhood Christians Common Communities Down English-Speaking Ignorant Language Most Never Property Reality Remembered Sat Studied Up Use Were Who Work

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Poet

Born: October 27th, 1914

Died: November 9th, 1953

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