"We are human, and nothing is more interesting……" — M H Abrams
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature."
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20 Quotes by M H Abrams
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as…
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily…
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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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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