Wilfred Owen Quotes
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
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English is not my first language.
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Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
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White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
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I can generate attention quickly.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
