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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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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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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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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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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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