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Denis Donoghue quotes

Ocupation: Academic

Life: b. 1928

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If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

source: - 1986 We Irish.

Topics: Country, Experience, Facts

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The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.

Topics: Strong, Mind, Battle

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.

Topics: Believe, Knowing, Done

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

Topics: Art, Expression, Looks, Tautology

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

source: - Denis Donoghue (1994). “The old moderns: essays on literature and theory”, Knopf

Topics: Art, Real, Exercise

There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.

Topics: Reason, Form

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

Topics: Would Be, Engagement, Literature

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