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«The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
American elder, any longer, assurance, attempted, dickens, frustration, irritated, manifestations, mood, perceptible, self-assurance
«If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.»
«Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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An Age, City of London, demography, dickens, feminine, Odessa, Paris, Rome, Sex and, teenager, twenties, urchin
«Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.»
«I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.»
«Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Life,
Literature
| Keywords:
African, dickens, dweller, dwellers, Falstaff, for example, ghetto, ghettos, largeness, The characters, Turgenev
«I cannot tell what the dickens his name is»
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