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Nikolai Gogol

Literature

1809–1852

"The year 2000: April 43rd.—To-day is a day of splendid triumph. Spain has a king; he has been found, and I am he."

"Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin."

"The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil."

"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'."

"Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire."

"Cross-culturality differs radically from multiculturality. There is no creative and re-creative sharing of dimensions in multiculturality."

semiotic literary criticism

Structuralism

1915–1980

"Roland Barthes and Photography by Ron Burnett"

"I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing."

"The greatest liberty is born of the greatest rigor."

"I’m a bit of a lone wolf…I don’t give interviews or do publicity unless I have a book out—too distracting. My desk is where the real work happens."

"Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion."

"If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again."

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🇨🇦Robert Fulford (journalist)

Journalism

1932–2024

"His rise to the status of Republican presidential candidate will stand as a unique historic achievement."

"Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy, greater and more malignant than any a psychologist could create for them, always hidden behind their own terror."

"The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present."

"What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover."

"Theodor Herzl: Visions of Israel, Video Lecture by Dr. Henry Abramson"

"Not believing in anything is also a religion."

"When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous."

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🇬🇧Edmund Charles Blunden

Literature

1896–1974

"A large collection of Blunden's papers is located at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin"

"My view as a Chinese is that Obama's elevation to the position of 44th president of the United States underscores teh greatness of the American system."

"Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction."

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🇺🇸Michael Schmidt (poet)

Literature

b. 1947

"Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it."

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

"There is a before and an after…In the after I was broken, shattered, and silent."

"This movement between alternative linguistic modes conceived as alternative descriptive protocols is, I would argue, a distinguishing feature of all the great classics of the ‘literature of fact.’"

"The Common Sense of Political Economy and Selected Papers and Reviews on Economic Theory, vol. I and vol. II"

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🇺🇸Carmen Maria Machado

Literature

b. 1986

"I usually start from a concept, an idea, a form, a question, or a genre. Never a character or a setting. And I don’t write into nothing; I always have somewhere I’m directing my thoughts."

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🇮🇳Govind Chandra Pande

Philosophy

1923–2011

"It may be concluded that Sankara accepts Yoga as a practical discipline for the realization of Truth and sees no contradiction between Yoga and Vedanta."