"Readers are less and less seen as mere……" — Terry Eagleton
"Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader."
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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than…
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It…
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine.…
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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways…
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin,…
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting…
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One…
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Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish…
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Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.
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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of…
— Michael Shermer
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it…
— Aaron Copland
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.
— Willie Garson
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Everything contains its antithesis.
— Juliet Stevenson
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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense…
— Aravind Adiga
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the…
— Frank Herbert
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all…
— Gerhard Richter
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It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We…
— Martin Buber
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... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he…
— Unknown Author
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