"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."

-- Clifford Geertz

#Criticism Quotes #Research Quotes #Persuasive Quotes

“I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere”
“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”

Source : Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.”
“It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.”
“In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.”
“The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.”
“I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor; DJ...the getaway driver.”

Source : Song: Living In The World Today
“We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.”

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