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Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? — John Green

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. — Lascelles Abercrombie

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres. — Debra Messing

Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them.
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan) — Johan Cruijff

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie

Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother. — Karen Marie Moning

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching. — Lascelles Abercrombie

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. — Lascelles Abercrombie

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. — Lascelles Abercrombie

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. — Lascelles Abercrombie

Within reach of his hand, the Bloody-Nine was master. The — Joe Abercrombie

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. — Lascelles Abercrombie

The world loves to be deceived. — Sebastian Franck