"The Scripture stories do not, like Homerâ€™s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant usâ€”they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels."

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Source : Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.15, Princeton University Press

Erich Auerbach

#Rebel Quotes #Stories Quotes #Favors Quotes

“Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them we're Animorphs." "Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked. "Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said. "Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.”
“We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there going: "oh god, I don't want to interrupt this, but... we've got to get things moving along..." We're just easily distracted because we want to be writing all the time!”
“I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.”
“Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.”
“Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.”
“What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.”
“Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.”
“Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion.”

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