"It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives."

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Source : Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.9, Oxford University Press

Frank Kermode

#Trying Quotes #Way Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.”
“Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.”
“But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.”
“You can't be somebody that you're not, because all of you shows up.”
“As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.”
“There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.”
“What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.”

Source : "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.
“Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?”

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