George Saintsbury Quotes
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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Today so many creative and devoted teachers not only have to struggle against unimaginative administrations, fearful parents, and wearied colleagues, they have also to battle entire legislative bodies that have never taught a child yet dare to equate educational success or failure with the ability of fourth graders to choose one out of four given answers to mind-numbing questions that have nothing to do with the joy of literature or the elegance of math.
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When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
