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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2269/">Quotes by <em>Eliot, T. S.</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965) was a poet, dramatist and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", and Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, he is considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. Although he was born an American, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

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"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

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"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."

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"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

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"I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers."

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"Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together."

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"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."

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"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."

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"There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth."

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"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

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