"When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so."

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Source : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2005). “Death of a Discipline”, p.26, Columbia University Press

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

#Teacher Quotes #Warning Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.”
“The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.”
“Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205
“Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.”

Source : William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.135
“Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.”
“If I dont need the money, I dont work. Im going to spend time with my family and friends, and Im going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.”
“living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts”
“Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.”

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