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Tag Name "Canonical" (8)

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It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
William Barclay
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I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.
Zoe Kazan
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
Hari Kunzru
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I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes along with that generation, it may have something to do with the fact that Never Mind the Bollocks was released when we were 16-years-old and that was really the album that crystalized a generation.
Mark Pesce
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Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.
Cynthia Daignault
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I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online literature since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.
Lee Klein
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Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures it does not depend upon texts.
Robert Linssen