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Left to itself the masculine i...

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

The masculine imagination live...

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

In order that people may be ha...

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

A man has his distinctive pers...

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

When I am in the company of sc...

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Drama is based on the Mistake....

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

You must go to bed with friend...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

It is... axiomatic that we sho...

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

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Precisely because we do not co...

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Dogmatic theological statement...

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

All sins tend to be addictive,...

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

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

One cannot walk through an ass...

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

A real book is not one that we...

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

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Some books are undeservedly fo...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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Fame often makes a writer vain...

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

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Every autobiography is concern...

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

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Of course, behaviorism works. ...

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

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Evil is unspectacular and alwa...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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A doctor, like anyone else who...

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

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Nobody knows what the cause is...

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

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