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Literary analysis Quotes

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks. "

"The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic"

"You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."

"I draw from the absurd three consequences"

"Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry."

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say"

"Nowhere so busy a man as he there n'as"

"It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times"

"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules or fits certain definitions."

"The best stories don't come from "good versus bad" but "bad versus worse."

"A heap of broken images, where the sun beats"