No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden Quotes
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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Acts of injustice done,
Between the setting and the rising sun,
In history lie like bones, each one.
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Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love,
I can all of them make me laugh.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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False enchantment can last a lifetime.
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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.