You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W H Auden Quotes

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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...

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...

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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...

When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a...

When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

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

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

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho...

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know Adele's ex boyfriend is sitting at home right now with a new chubby...

I know Adele's ex boyfriend is sitting at home right now with a new chubby...

It's better to wound yourself to seeking for the better, rather than continuously be wounded...

It's better to wound yourself to seeking for the better, rather than continuously be wounded...

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