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There is no method but to be very intelligent. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#intelligent #method #very

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #call #cup #dear #desire

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#help #language #only #poetry #prevent

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#failed #most #some #writers

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#forsake #forsaken #him #man #more

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#business #emotions #express #feelings #find

I won't play a teenager. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#play #teenager #won

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#i #i love #love #nerd #total

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#computer #i #i am #intended #interest