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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."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Acting and Actors
""Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.""
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Convalescence
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Death and Dying
"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Evil
"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Faces
"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."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Literature
"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Marriage
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Mind
"Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Names
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
Author:
W. H. Auden
Category:
Patience
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