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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "10 December, 1947," The Table Talk of W.H. Auden, comp. by Alan Ansen, ed. Nicholas Jenkins (1990).)
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What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules—don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "31 December, 1947," The Table Talk of W. H. Auden, comp. Alan Ansen, ed. Nicholas Jenkins (1990).)
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It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, in the position of having almost infinitely free will.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "November 16, 1946," The Table Talk of W.H. Auden, comp. by Alan Ansen, ed. Nicholas Jenkins (1990).)
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Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "Work, Labor, and Play," A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, Viking (1970).)
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, "Did you get an erection?" If the answer is "Yes" from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "March 17, 1947," The Table Talk of W. H. Auden, comp. by Alan Ansen, ed. Nicholas Jenkins (1990).)
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it—not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "Work, Labor, and Play," A Certain World (1970).)
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "November 16, 1946," The Table Talk of W.H. Auden, comp. by Alan Ansen, ed. Nicholas Jenkins (1990).)
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