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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
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There is no method except yourself.
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…
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You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other…
— Pat Robertson
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More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.
— Harold Bloom
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Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.
— Pat Roberts
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I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were…
— John Templeton
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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head,…
— Herman Melville
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With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty,…
— Kathryn Stockett
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As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and…
— Norman Maclean
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Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.
— Libba Bray
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A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions…
— Kevin DeYoung
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You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each…
— Charles Tupper
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There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and…
— Charles Hodge
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