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Literary Critic Inspirational Quotes (30050)

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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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All nature seems at work.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
Hilary Mantel
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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
Anne Stevenson
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Samuel Johnson
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
Umberto Eco
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
John Ruskin
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
Margaret Atwood
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The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small whole species disappear and are replaced.
Randall Jarrell
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...And in freedom, most people find sin.
John Green
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Aristotle
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Everything seems simpler from a distance.
Gail Tsukiyama
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Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.
H. L. Mencken
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
Patrick Ness
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You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.
H. L. Mencken
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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
Margaret Atwood
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Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.
Anna Akhmatova
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, as Herbert says, fine nets and stratagems. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
C. S. Lewis
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Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
John Green
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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
T. S. Eliot
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Karl Kraus
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