"It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end."

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Source : Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.21, Oxford University Press

Frank Kermode

#Book Quotes #Charm Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.”

Source : "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.
“I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.”

Source : "Interview: Kirby Bliss Blanton and Alexis Knapp on Project X". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2012.
“I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!”
“I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.”
“All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.103
“I put my head down and charge.”

Source : "Muriel Siebert, a Determined Trailblazer for Women on Wall Street, Dies at 84" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2013.
“It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.”
“The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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