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Quotes and Authors in Modern Late British Literature
Quotes and Authors in Modern Late British Literature
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
12/11/2010

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"The horror! The horror!"
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Author: Conrad
Title: Heart of Darkness
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"And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's way to man"
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Author: Housman
Title: Terrence, this is Stupid Stuff
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"I wrung it in a weary land"
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Author: Housman
Title: Terrence, this is Stupid Stuff
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"the centre cannot hold"
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Author: Yeats
Title: Second Coming
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"the ceremony of innocence is drowned"
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Author: Yeats
Title: Second Coming
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"the best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity"
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Author: Yeats
Title: Second Coming
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"slouches toward Bethlehem"
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Author: Yeats
Title: Second Coming
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"I will arise and go now"
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Author: Yeats
Title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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"A line will take us hours maybe"
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Author: Yeats
Title: Adam's Curse
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"we must labor to be beautiful"
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Author: Yeats
Title: Adam's Curse
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"the moon is a shell"
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Author: Yeats
Title: Adam's Curse
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I have measured out my life by coffee spoons"
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Author: Eliot
Title: Prufrock
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"death is neither sweet nor fitting"
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Author: Owen
Title: Dulce Et Decorum Est
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"Only in separation- marriage, and birth, And death, and thoughts of these"
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Author: Larkin
Title: Church Going
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"Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious"
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Author: Larkin
Title: Church Going
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Most things may never happen: this one will"
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Author: Larkin
Title: Aubade
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"Religion used to try, That vast moth-eaten musical brocade Created to pretend we never die"
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Author: Larkin
Title: Aubade
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"And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves"
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Author: Thomas
Title: Fern Hill
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"And I am dumb"
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Author: Thomas
Title: The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
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"I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger"
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Author: James Joyce
Title: Araby
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