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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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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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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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Im still really close with everyone at home and their parents – and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I dont take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it. – Jennifer Garner

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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. Thats the same view I have for performing. Im performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. – Yo-Yo Ma

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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether its like discovering a filmmaker who youre taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, Im so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle. – Drew Barrymore

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To be an ideal guest, stay at home. – E. W. Howe

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