Christopher Ricks famous quotes
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Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.
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Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.
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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
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The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.
-- Christopher Ricks
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.
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I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.
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John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
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Genius is clairvoyant.
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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
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