M. H. Abrams Quotes
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
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The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
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The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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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. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
