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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation…
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time…
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular…
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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all…
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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
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We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
— William Jennings Bryan
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I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.
— Sarah Hyland
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If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties.
— Amy Poehler
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To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I…
— W.C. Fields
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A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head…
— Jonah
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Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of…
— Timothy Keller
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Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about…
— Colin S. Smith
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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his…
— Joshua Foer
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Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
— Unknown Author
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Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound…
— Aldous Huxley
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