Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
Quotes By Terry Eagleton
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of...
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a...
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few...
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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject...
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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the...
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With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a...
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It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from...
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The study of history and philosophy accompanied by some acquaintance with...
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If history philosophy and so on vanish from academic life what they leave...
Quotes About History
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If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
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For most of our history Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from...
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply...
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades...
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one...
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History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women...
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In the history of America we've never had an energy plan. We don't even...
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic...
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One...
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is...