"I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a big part in why I ended up becoming a writer rather than a scholar, because I thought, "I just can't play these games." I was interested in literature because I loved literature, and so much of the theoretical positioning, at that moment 25 years ago, was antagonistic to literature. You know, trying to show that Jane Austen is a terrible person because she wasn't thinking about colonialism."

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Daniel Mendelsohn

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?”
“The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.”
“With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.”

Source : Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.
“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

Source : "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
“Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun”

Source : Song: Authority Song
“...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.”
“The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than denounced. This has been the way of Buddhism since the beginning, and this is true Buddhism.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.137
“Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.”

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