"Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult."

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Northrop Frye

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“Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.”
“There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.”
“Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.”
“Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.”
“Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.”

Source : Shusha Guppy (2004). “The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
“I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.”

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