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Literary Critic Inspirational Quotes (30050)

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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
Marshall McLuhan
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She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Only those things the heart believes are true.
Vincent Starrett
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
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All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.
Arthur Symons
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I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.
Ayn Rand
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What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
Georg Brandes
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To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
George Orwell
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I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
Edmund White
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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Honore de Balzac
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore de Balzac
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He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.
Keith Preston
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Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.
John Dryden
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Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
Susan Sontag
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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
John Green
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In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
H. L. Mencken
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A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
Azar Nafisi
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This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.
Andrzej Stasiuk
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Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned.
Andrzej Stasiuk
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Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
Andrzej Stasiuk
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