To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
T. S. ELIOTSome editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
More T. S. Eliot Quotes
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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