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| Quote #1: | "This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper." |
| Quote #2: | "April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers." |
| Quote #3: | "Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind." |
| Quote #4: | "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." |
| Quote #5: | "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." |
| Quote #6: | "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." |
| Quote #7: | "So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist." |
| Quote #8: | "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." |
| Quote #9: | "Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go." |
| Quote #10: | "Immature poets imitate mature poets steal." |
| Quote #11: | "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information" |
| Quote #12: | "And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls." |
| Quote #13: | "The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates." |
| Quote #14: | "Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion." |
| Quote #15: | "We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." |
| Quote #16: | "Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things." |
| Quote #17: | "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." |
| Quote #18: | "Humankind cannot stand very much reality." |
| Quote #19: | "The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason." |
| Quote #20: | "Humor is also a way of saying something serious." |
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