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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

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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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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

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Now is the age of anxiety.

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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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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: February 21st, 1907

Died: September 29th, 1973

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