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Literary Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- 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…
- I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is…
- Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around…
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- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are… — George Orwell
- They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' — Samuel Butler
- I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books… — Amy Tan
- Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood
- So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron
- Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part… — Aberjhani
- No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow
- Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it — Mark Twain