T. S. Eliot Quotes, Fighting Quotes, People Quotes

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Home is where one starts from.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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