Erich Auerbach famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.
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To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
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The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
-- Erich Auerbach
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When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.
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I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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