Ihab Hassan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.
-- Ihab Hassan

#Names #White #Offering
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
-- Ihab Hassan

#Eye #Ears #Kind
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.
-- Ihab Hassan

#Stars #Rain #Glasses
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.
-- Ihab Hassan

#Writing #Speak #Plagiarism
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.
-- Ihab Hassan

#Integrity #Silence #Excellence

I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Ihab Hassan famous quotes

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