quotes about Odyssey
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
-- Andrew WilesSource : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
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It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.
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Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
-- Joe Morgenstern -
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
-- Jon KrakauerSource : Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.22, Pan Macmillan
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It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.
-- Karen DuffySource : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". Live chat, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau -
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
-- Raymond Queneau -
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
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A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
-- Thomas MooreSource : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
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Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.
-- Campbell McGrathSource : Source: therumpus.net
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What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we're uncovering for the first time; but we aren't.
-- Daniel MendelsohnSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.
-- Robert DessaixSource : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
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Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
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