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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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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
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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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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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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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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
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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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Teach us to care and not to care
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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And they write innumerable books being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
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