Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.
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There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.
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The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.
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Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.
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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
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There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.
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No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
