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The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.