One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Quote by W H Auden

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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

No hero is immortal till he dies

No hero is immortal till he dies

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.