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Gary Giddins

"There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement."

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Gary Giddins

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“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

Source : Alain Badiou (2005). “Metapolitics”, p.7, Verso
“You can only understand the present age when it is past.”
“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”
“The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.”
“If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.”
“Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross.”
“When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!”
“The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells”

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