“Critics do not have the satisfaction of working on things that actually exist, like sick dogs or dental cavities. So they are… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large.… — William Walsh Copy Share Image
Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
The superhero shows and movies are always having the spotlight on the superheroes themselves. It's never about the people who are living… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
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When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“What philosophers say about actuality [Virkelighed] is often just as disappointing as it is when one reads on a sign in a… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
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