Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
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To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
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God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.
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I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
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Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
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I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.
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We left him there. Louie. We left him.” I watched my father lean into his own arms and sob. There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal. My heart was breaking. All this time, I’d wanted my father to tell me something about the war and now I couldn’t stand to see the rawness of his pain, how new it was after so many years, how that pain was alive and thriving just beneath the surface.
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I've always worked very hard.
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The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
