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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And you still have to sqeeze into your jeans, but you're perfect to me.
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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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There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.
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It made me smile, the way they got along, the easy and affectionate way they talked to each other as if love between a father and a son was simple and uncomplicated. My mom and I, sometimes what we had was easy and uncomplicated. Sometimes. But me and my dad, we didn't have that. I wondered what that would be like, to walk into a room and kiss my father.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Love is inevitable, and there’s really nothing you can do about it; there’s really no choice.
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I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.
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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
