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Terry Eagleton
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 22
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
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Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.
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Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
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Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
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