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Literary Critic Inspirational Quotes (30050)

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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
Anne Carson
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Anne Carson
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anne Carson
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
Anne Carson
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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
Edgar Allan Poe
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Better to dream than to be.
Fernando Pessoa
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
Bayard Taylor
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All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.
Valery Bryusov
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault
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The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
C. S. Lewis
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For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
Marcel Proust
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
Aristotle
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That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!
Annalena McAfee
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
Annalena McAfee
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My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.
Annalena McAfee
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I see myself as a recovering journalist.
Annalena McAfee
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I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.
Annalena McAfee
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My love's a noble madness.
John Dryden
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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
James Russell Lowell
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I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.
Margaret Drabble
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All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.
Charles Olson
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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too!
Matthew Arnold
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
Van Wyck Brooks
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