Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
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One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
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Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
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On the very rare occasion when they don't all jump up out of their seats I'm always mortified.
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Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
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Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
