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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a…
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Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.
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What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
— Ian Mcewan
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested,…
— Remy de Gourmont
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It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for…
— Edgar Degas
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with…
— Michael Jackson
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers…
— Samuel Rutherford
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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
— Solomon
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