Quote by Terry Eagleton
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton

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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. – Terry Eagleton

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War
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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. – Terry Eagleton

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Faith
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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. – Terry Eagleton

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Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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History

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. – C. S. Lewis

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History

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. – Neale Donald Walsch

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History

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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Fingers now scented with sage and rosemary, a kneeling gardener is lost in savory memories. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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You dont have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that lifes about change. – John Cleese

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Opportunity is a bird that never perches. – Claude McDonald

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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. – Pearl S. Buck

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