Denis Donoghue quotes
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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.”
-- Denis DonoghueSource : 1986 We Irish.
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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.”
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“Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.”
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“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.”
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“The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.”
-- Denis DonoghueSource : Denis Donoghue (1994). “The old moderns: essays on literature and theory”, Knopf
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“There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.”
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“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.”
-- Denis Donoghue
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“The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.”
Source : "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.
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“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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