"Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose."

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W. H. Auden

#Listening Quotes #Prose Quotes

“Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.”
“What I can control and all I know as of today, I am signed up for one more year...I guess things could change, but with all the uncertainty in many aspects, I don't see (his decision not to sign an extension) changing before camp gets here, and when camp gets here I'm even more certain to play it out.”
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
“I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.”
“People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.”
“It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earthâ€”all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.”
“I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.”
“A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.”

Source : "Pick-up techniques - interview with Neil Strauss". Interview with Kirstin Innes, www.list.co.uk. January 31, 2008.

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