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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?

Something else Try Life
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Think History I
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Critics Cry Finest Full
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Like Life
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Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Fail Try Try Again
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He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

Think Write Talent
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Emotional Difficulties Mother Singing
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood,

Misunderstood Song Written Simone
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Love Prelude Sorrow Headache
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Artist Reflect Times
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Believe Decline Even Literary
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Future Literary No Future Say
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

Absolute Being Candidate Equal
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Music Gift Burden Remember
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
Better Citizens Create Future
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Drug Addicts Sounds Cat
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Science is about unravelling nature.

About Unraveling Nature Science
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Bad Because Found Me
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Demand Perfection Practice Concert
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

About Better Comfort Cost
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

About Any Art Beyond
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Became Because England Industrial
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Earnestly Hard Know Right
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.

Agriculture Became Because Etc
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Crucial Enough Even Ever
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Being Concerns Decent Gandhi
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Like Know Doctor Music
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You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

Expertise Need People Voices
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

Absorb Accept Capacity Enormous
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

About Chosen Citizens Competence
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

Forward Show Dream
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.

Business Most Persons Respected
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Fails One Sometimes Succeeds
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