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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. — Terry Eagleton

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation. — Paul Louis Couchoud

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics. — C.S. Lewis

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette. — Edward Abbey

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not
To wound the fame of princes, if it find
But any blemish in their lives to work on. — Philip Massinger

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. — Charles Simic

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. — C.S. Lewis

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous. — Ann Landers

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett

Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois. — Charles Baudelaire

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. — Mason Cooley

Literary theories will not make a writer write. — Allen Wier

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it. — D. Harlan Wilson

Imagination and the pure delight in stories drive out fear. — William Paton Ker

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. — Harry Frankfurt

I am determined to learn something from everything..No experience has to go waste! Why should I experience if I don't learn anything.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message. — Joel Osteen

Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal. — Ernest Becker

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. — William R. Alger

The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. — Madonna Ciccone

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman. — George Herbert

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since. — Anne Elizabeth Moore

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is. — Jim Crace

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us. — Peter Capaldi

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. — Roland Barthes

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades. — Terry Eagleton

My worst expectations never happened. — Barbara Bush