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Language Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
- Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride…
- With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of…
- Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
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