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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG
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At the still point, there the dance is.
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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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not fare well, but fare forward
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