Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Success

Speaker

Agatha

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Family Reunion

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Adventure Beginning of a journey

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T.S. Eliot
Source
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 1.

Another quote from the 1930s

Electric flesh-arrows...traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Anaïs Nin

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Topic
Sex

Author

Anaïs Nin
Source
Journals of Anaïs Nin
Medium
Personal journal
Language
English
Time
1937 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Nin, Anaïs. "October, 1937." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 2, 1934–1939, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1967.

Another quote about Success

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Woody Allen

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Topic
How to succeed Success
Speaker
Woody Allen
Source
The New York Times
Language
English
Time
1977 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Allen, Woody. Quoted in "He's Woody Allen's 1‐1‐Silent Partner." Written by Susan Braudy. The New York Times, 21 Aug. 1977.

Another quote from 1939

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

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Topic
Adventure
Speaker
Dorothy Gale
Actor
Judy Garland
Source
Over the Rainbow The Wizard of Oz
Medium
Song Film
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

"Over the Rainbow." The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming, performed by Judy Garland, composed by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harburg, Edgar Yipsel "Yip." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.