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| Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession | | Murder | |
| Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. | | Uncategorized | |
| Music is the best means we have of digesting time. | | Music | |
| Music, which can be made anywhere, Is invisible, And does not smell also | | Uncategorized | |
| My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. | | Uncategorized | |
| My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. | | Uncategorized | |
| Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. | | Uncategorized | |
| No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. | | Uncategorized | |
| No hero is immortal till he dies | | Heroism | |
| No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. | | Uncategorized | |
| No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. | | Uncategorized | |
| No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. | | Uncategorized | |
| Noises at dawn will bring / Freedom for some, but not this peace / No bird can contradict. | | Uncategorized | |
| Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen | | Uncategorized | |
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| O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges / To dine with Lord Lobcock and Count Asthma. | | Uncategorized | |
| Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. | | Uncategorized | |
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| One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. | | Uncategorized | |
