Denis Donoghue Quotes

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Denis Donoghue

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• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

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• I don't like controversy.

  

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• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

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• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

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• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

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• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  

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• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

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• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

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• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

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• I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.

  

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• There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.

  

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• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
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• 'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
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• I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

  

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• 'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'

  

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• Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

  

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• I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed ... the old men are all killed ... it is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are, perhaps freezing to death. I want time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

  

  Alan Bock
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• The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

  

  Denis Donoghue
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Exercise