Rebecca L. Walkowitz quotes
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“Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.”
-- Rebecca L. WalkowitzSource : Rebecca L. Walkowitz (2012). “Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation”, p.145, Columbia University Press
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“Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.”
-- Rebecca L. Walkowitz
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“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Apr. 1989.
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“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”
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“If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.”
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“Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.”
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Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
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“The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.”
Source : Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press
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