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creative hope literature taught
With my creative writing students, I've taught literature more than I've taught writing courses'I just hope to make them better. Thom Gunn
book reading literature
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic. Alan Bennett
theatre together literature
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film. Akira Kurosawa
darkness style literature
You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. Chris Abani
literature weapons
My weapon is literature Chinua Achebe
thinking people literature
You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.
literature easy teach
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
gay color literature
It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant. Cheryl Strayed
book literature remember
A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.
across common convey empires languages life mental period precious safely sail shipwreck suffered time treasures words
Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. Source Unknown
leaving empires foreign-policy
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates. Jamie Zawinski
rhinos empires troops
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. Jared Diamond
historical empires literature
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry
long empires fingers
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. Alan Moore
empires misery humans
The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
men cities empires
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
religious war empires
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
long empires inquiring
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.