Rebecca L. Walkowitz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.
-- Rebecca L. Walkowitz -
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.
-- Rebecca L. Walkowitz
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
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Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.
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I give good advice. I do not always take it.
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There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
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The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
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