Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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“One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.”
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“The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.”
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“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”
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“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
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“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.”
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“God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.”
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“The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.”
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“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”
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“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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“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
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