It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Drink Quotes

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

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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

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

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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The grievances of which we complain, be assured, sir, are not imaginary, but real -...

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All history is modern history

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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context...