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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."
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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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Explore more quotes by Thom Gunn
"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"
Time
"I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop."
Reading
"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."
Childhood
"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."
Man
"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."
Writing
"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."
Writing
"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."
Writing
"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader."
Writing
"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."
People
"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."
Reading
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