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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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. – Terry Eagleton

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Faith
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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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Knowledge
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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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History
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I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. – Isabel Allende

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said Whos speaking please? And a voice said You are. – Tim Vine

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Home

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat. – Lance Morrow

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I know for works for me – those wonderful sad love songs. – Toni Braxton

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Theres a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because Ive enjoyed my ride. – Fuzzy Zoeller

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Hope

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand. – Emo Philips

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funny

Your heart has been sore wounded too. Dear Light, love shall cherish you, till you again look on life with happy eyes. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Adversity