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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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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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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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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In life there is not time to grieve long.
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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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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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
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