Quote by Terry Eagleton
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, wh

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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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. – 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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Going home must be like going to render an account. – Joseph Conrad

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No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. – Theresa May

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Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home. – Novalis

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Its easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership. – Suze Orman

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Things forbidden have a secret charm. – Tacitus

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I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying Ill get it right one day. – Richard Pryor

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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. – Thornton Wilder

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