"Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade."

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George Steiner

#Criticism Quotes #Passionate Quotes #Honest Quotes

“I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.”
“I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.”
“Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“No place is a place until it has found its poet.”
“It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.”
“All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.”

Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.101, Penguin
“I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.”
“God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.”

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