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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7321)

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The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
W. H. Auden
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We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.
W. H. Auden
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Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
W. H. Auden
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
W. H. Auden
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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
W. H. Auden
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What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
W. H. Auden
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You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Bertolt Brecht
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If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.
W. H. Auden
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Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life
W. H. Auden
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What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
W. H. Auden
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Those who hate to go to bed fear death those who hate to get up fear life.
W. H. Auden
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Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
W. H. Auden
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The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
W. H. Auden
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Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.
W. H. Auden
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
W. H. Auden
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Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
W. H. Auden
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The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.
W. H. Auden
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
W. H. Auden
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
Edward Bond
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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
W. S. Gilbert
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It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
W. S. Gilbert
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
W. S. Gilbert
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
W. S. Gilbert
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert
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