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#1

“Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: literature, reading

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#2

“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)”
― F R Leavis

tags: languages-and-culture

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#3

“Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: poetry-quotes

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#4

“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: litrature

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#5

“A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: revolution

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#6

“The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: novels

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#7

“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: novels

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#8

“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: novel

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#9

“The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy." ~ F. R. Leavis”
― F.R. Leavis

tags: poetry

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#10

“He doesn't know what he means, and doesn't know he doesn't know.”
― F.R. Leavis

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#11

“A powerful critical talent who destroyed his own sense of proportion, Leavis was our brush with totalitarianism: we caught it as a mild fever instead of the full attack of meningitis. His career was the clearest possible proof that the course the arts take is not under the control of criticism.”
― F.R. Leavis

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#12

“The word for bank is the same, but the word for money changer is not, and while I have never learned the etymology behind this minor asymmetry I can imagine it represents centuries of cultural and ideological dissidence.”
― Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

tags: language, language-barrier, languages-and-culture

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#13

“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.”
― Alex Morritt, Lines & Lenses

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#14

“These days, elementary school students learn English and coding at school. Tomorrow's elementary school students will learn AI. AI comes before English and coding. This is because artificial intelligence is the language and tool of the future.”
― Enamul Haque, The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence: Including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT, Data Science, Robotics, The Future of Jobs, Required Upskilling and Intelligent Industries

tags: artificial-intelligence, coding, deep-learning, languages-and-culture, machine-learning

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#15

“Behind the heavens,
life and death, a tone,
Behind the heart,
a butterfly dancing,
In the end everything is simple,
as simple as a leaf that one holds in one’s hand,
as simple as the laughter of a child.”
― alexis karpouzos, The self-criticism of science: The contemporary philosophy of science & the problem of the scientific consciousness.

tags: art, languages-and-culture, life-lessons, philosophy-of-life, poetry, poetry-books, spirituality, spirituality-vs-religion

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#16

“In all the languages I speak, they say, ‘I fell in love.’ I always wondered why we have to fall if we are really loved. Why do we not stand in love? Why do we love someone to ‘death’ not to life? Perhaps the day we learn how to stand in language, we shall also be able to stand in love, to love our lovers to life, and to turn the language we speak from chains in our hands into wings to help us fly away from the prison we have built from it.”
― Louis Yako

tags: inspirational, languages-and-culture, linguistic-hegemony, love, mindfulness, wisdom

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#17

“I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for country in the old language, the first language — because that is the way to all time, to time travel! You can go all the way back.”
― Tara June Winch, The Yield

tags: australian-history, indigenous-australians, languages-and-culture

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#18

“Now, as all of you will have had reason aplenty to discover for yourselves, there are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit-card and freeway, of internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#19

“They just aren’t as interesting naked,” she said. “It’s the unwrapping that’s half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#20

“Through the doorway into an apartment that smelled like over-boiled cabbage and cat-box and unfiltered foreign cigarettes, and they were ushered through a tiny hallway past several closed doors to the sitting room at the far end of the corridor, and were seated on a huge old horsehair sofa, disturbing an elderly gray cat in the process, who stretched, stood up, and walked, stiffly, to a distant part of the sofa, where he lay down, warily stared at each of them in turn, then closed one eye and went back to sleep.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#21

“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the living, thought Shadow.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: death

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#22

“Believe," said the rumbling voice. "If you are to survive, you must believe."

"Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?"

He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge, and his eyes filled with fire. He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth.

"Everything," roared the buffalo man.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: believe

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#23

“There is more to it than just, you prosper, your enemies fail,” said Mama Zouzou.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#24

“If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each others’ tragedies.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#25

“drunk were left alone in the graveyard. The priest looked down at the drunk disdainfully, and backed through the open door, which closed behind him, leaving the drunk on his own. The clockwork story was deeply unsettling. Much more unsettling, thought Shadow, than clockwork has any right to be. “You know why I show that to you?”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#26

“Nunca houve uma só guerra que não tenha sido travada entre dois grupos inteiramente convictos de que estão fazendo o que é certo. As pessoas perigosas de verdade são aquelas que acreditam que estão fazendo o que estão fazendo única e exclusivamente porque aquela é, sem a menor sombra de dúvida, a única coisa certa a se fazer. E é por isso que são tão perigosas.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#27

“They may share certain cultural signifiers—money, a federal government, entertainment; it’s the same land, obviously—but the only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald’s.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#28

“This country started going to hell when they stopped hanging folks.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#29

“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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