Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.
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Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.
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I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.
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Art should not be an easy thing.
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Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.
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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.
