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20 Quotes by M H Abrams

M H Abrams has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the…
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is…
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as…
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily…
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing.…

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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