"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."

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Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

George Saintsbury

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“We want to tell our fans to love who you are. You're yourself, so you shouldn't change it.”
“The will for deed I doe accept.”
“True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.”
“When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.
“I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'”
“Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.”
“Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.”
“You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition and weapons training. You never stop, you never hesitate, and you never show any mercy for the people that would slow you down.That is what the military says we should do, and if I ever meet anybody who listens to that particular set of commands, I may shoot them myself just to improve the gene pool. When you can help people stay alive, you help them. We're all we've got.”

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