"The first epics were intended for recitation; the……" — Lascelles Abercrombie

More Epic Quotes

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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
• You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams
• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin
• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. — A. Whitney Brown
• Absence - that common cure of love. — Lord Byron
• History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. — Graydon Carter
• Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in… — Agatha Christie
• Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic… — Diablo Cody
• There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an… — Lascelles Abercrombie
• There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. — Kevin J. Anderson

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