Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Quote by W H Auden

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology...

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

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.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the...

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the...

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It...

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

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