Denis Donoghue Quotes
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
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I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
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The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.
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Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
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He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
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Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.
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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.
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A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.
