“Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.” IfsSpiritLiteratureSinPiecesWrittenBecomingAssuranceAccusationPluckClockworkEliotGreat LiteratureForgiveness Of SinsTito Book:Ideas of Good and Evil Source: Ideas of Good and Evil
“Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.” BookEndsLanguageNovelPiecesKeysBecomingSixBelovedJaneEnglish LanguageAdmirerAusten Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009
“One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.” FeelsFilmFormFictionPiecesWallBabyBecomingAdultsScience FictionFatsShakesChairsFedsLazinessFloatingPoignantPortrayalPixarCusp Author:Nick Offerman
“Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.” ThinkingEndsSometimesTogetherFoundNamesSoundPiecesParticularBecomingOkayTitlesWorking TogetherIntrigue Author:Brian Eno