Denis Donoghue famous quotes
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If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.
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The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.
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Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.
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A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
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There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.
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Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
-- Denis Donoghue
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God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!
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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
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My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
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I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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