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We are such stuff
As dreams are made on;

No it is not a self help book, it’s a very serious book.

Eagleton’s book is about literature, it’s about all the little things that we have read before but just didn’t pay enough attention to.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said . . .

This book is essential to any literary fan or anyone who enjoy the company of a good novel. Because books are like humans, more you know them more fun they be.
So read this book. It will help you to read better, to listen better and most importantly to enjoy literature.

If love and bottles of Châteauneuf-du-Pape pass away, so do wars and tyrants.

Ps. The Arabic translation was so bad that I had to go the original version to understand what Eagleton was talking about.

One of them believes that the starship Enterprise really does have a heat shield. Another considers that Sherlock Holmes is a creature of flesh and blood. Yet another argues that Dickens’s Mr Pickwick is real, and that his servant Sam Weller can see him, even though we cannot. These people are not clinically insane, simply philosophers.

What victory is there in hacking thousands of enemy soldiers to death?

‘Once upon a time� signals to the reader not to raise certain questions, such as Is this true? Where did it happen? Was it before or after the invention of cornflakes?


W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic post in Dublin because he misspelt the word ‘professor� on his application.


If we were to accept that our existence is as fragile and fugitive as that of Prospero and Miranda, we might reap some advantage from doing so. We might cling to life in a less white-knuckled way, and so enjoy ourselves more and injure others less.


The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish.

Pleasantness is for those who can afford it.

He was the only man in history who was banned from the Danish communist party before he had applied to join

A life can be significant without having a goal, just as a work of art can be.

Literature, like an absolute monarch among his fawning courtiers, is where you can never
be wrong.