"Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar."

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A. E. Housman

#Lonely Quotes #Hero Quotes #Men Quotes

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”
“You are not going to be perfect every day. Itâ€™s about turning up the next day and doing it again.”
“Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.”
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
“ClichÃ©s can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichÃ©s.”
“Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!”
“There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.”
“It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.”

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