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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with. – Terry Eagleton

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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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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic. – Terry Eagleton

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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! – Lewis Carroll

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. – Gunther Grass

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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? – Author Unknown

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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. – Alice Walker

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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), lecture on Don Quixote, Cervantes

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