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Literary Critic Inspirational Quotes (30153)

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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
Umberto Eco
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
Umberto Eco
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past it passes out memories generously like a great lord it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.
Umberto Eco
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
Umberto Eco
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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
Umberto Eco
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in deconstructive reading read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
Umberto Eco
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Umberto Eco
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Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
Umberto Eco
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The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
Umberto Eco
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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Umberto Eco
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Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height.
Umberto Eco
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
Eudora Welty
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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.
Judith Butler
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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When I'm writing I don't dream much it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle
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...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Science fiction is not prescriptive it is descriptive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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