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W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
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One can only blaspheme if one believes.
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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.
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