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"Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism."
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Terry EagletonIt is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”, a self-ri — Terry Eagleton
"It is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration."
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Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton
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Terence Francis Eagleton is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English Literature at Lancaster University.
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"Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary."
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"You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism."
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"Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."
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"Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author."
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"The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present."
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