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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
Terry Eagleton
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Terry Eagleton
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 22
Literary Critic
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Salford
Greater Manchester
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
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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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If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
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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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Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
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