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Terry Eagleton
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 22
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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
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I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
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If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
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Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
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History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
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Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.
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Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
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For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
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Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
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There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
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It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
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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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Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love.
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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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The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.
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