#si

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. ↗

— James Gunn

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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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A "sin" is something which is not necessary. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

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The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. ↗

— William Gurnall

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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. ↗

— William Gurnall

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