"It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally……" — Maureen Corrigan
"It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent."
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11 Quotes by Maureen Corrigan
Maureen Corrigan has 11 quotes on this site.
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Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's…
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The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old…
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To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at…
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All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page…
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We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of…
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Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
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It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my…
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According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a…
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I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a…
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In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop,…
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More Affirm Quotes
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
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What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to…
— Tony Campolo
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In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.
— Ken McCarthy
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
— Alfred Binet
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You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good…
— Trey Gowdy
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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits…
— Unknown Author
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love…
— Alan Cohen
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House,…
— Jimmy Carter
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity…
— Norman Cousins
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An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something…
— T. Harv Eker
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