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• But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or… — Jamaica Kincaid
• I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman
• My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
• There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,… — Dorothy Parker
• [P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how… — Bart D. Ehrman
• I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass
• When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament… — Cynthia Ozick
• The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish… — Cynthia Ozick
• England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I… — A. S. Byatt

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