Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
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New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.
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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
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I can't be anybody but myself.
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
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I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.
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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
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The world broke open like a big white egg.
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Conquer or be conquered.
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My kids are my biggest motivation.
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When a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days.
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God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
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It´s just...today has really sucked, and when you´re around stuff doesn´t seem so crappy.
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Some people might sleep eight hours and wake up exhausted because they're not getting good quality sleep.
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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
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Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.
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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
