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• I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain
• I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. — Dorothy L. Sayers
• I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe
• It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be… — John Drinkwater
• A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F. R. Leavis
• To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C.S. Lewis
• I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young
• Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could… — Charles Darwin
• The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that… — Cornell Woolrich
• The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain
• Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. — Samuel Johnson
• The only paradise is paradise lost. — Marcel Proust

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