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T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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Hurry up, please, its time.
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Words move, music moves Only in time but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
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To become what you are not, behave as you do not.
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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep at night he hunts God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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