Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
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“Thee, my serenity, one can not bear, Seeing thee befuddled, bereaved, Dimmed like the midnight, secluded, darkened, Thee, my serenity, A window… — Hamidreza Bagheri Copy Share Image
It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Not sonnets, Naskar Sonnets (2883) I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
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“He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
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An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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