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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. -- T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massinger" | |
| For years a secret shame destroyed my peace-- I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece. But now I think a thought that brings me hope: Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope. -- Justin Richardson. | |
| I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones. -- T.S. Eliot | |
| ...cyberpunk wants to see the mind as mechanistic & duplicable, challenging basic assumptions about the nature of individuality & self. That seems all the better reason to assume that cyberpunk art & music is essentially mindless garbagio. Willy certainly addressed this idea in "Count Zero," with Katatonenkunst, the automatic box-maker and the girl's observation that the real art was the building of the machine itself, rather than its output. -- Eliot Handelman | |
| April is the cruellest month... -- Thomas Stearns Eliot | |
| Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow -- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to system service dispatching.] | |
| Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" -- T.S. Eliot, "Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | |
| This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but with a whimper. -- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" | |
| A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. -- George Eliot | |
| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot | |
| Human kind cannot bear very much reality. -- T.S. Eliot, "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" | |
| 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. -- T.S. Eliot, essay on Baudelaire | |
| Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. -- T.S. Eliot, "The Family Reunion" | |
