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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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. – 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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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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They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or dont like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because theyre not sure what they saw. – Alice Cooper

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I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but Ive been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. Ive tried to do landscapes a few times. – Michelle Pfeiffer

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