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“If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.”

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M. H. Abrams

M. H. Abrams, a renowned American literary critic, was born on July 23, 1912, and passed away on April 21, 2015. His works have had a profound impact on literary criticism in the 20th century. more

“All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.”

Firsts Persons Said Character Facts Happens Behinds Talking Projects Dimensions Dislike First Person Exhibitionism

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.”

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Author:Peter Lewis Allen

“We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.”

Creatures Ancestry

Book:Phthor

Source: Phthor

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

Should Long Has Beens Cities Economy New York Should Have London Should Have Been City Life Tokyo Metropolis Cities At Night City Of London

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

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