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French born American Critic, Scholar and Educator, His works include Language and Silence (1963) and Fields of Force (1974), b.1929
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“[The] most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.”

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