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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
W. H. Auden
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Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
Anthony Holden
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
Edward Bond
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
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Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Marilyn Hacker
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Anatole Broyard
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
E. M. Forster
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
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