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

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

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

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...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

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

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

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

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 history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.