"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

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Source : Craig Raine (2011). “In Defence of T. S. Eliot”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

Craig Raine

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“Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?”
“I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.”
“Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight”

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.232, Anchor
“My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.”
“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
“nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music”

Source : Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.13, Penguin
“Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.”

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