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English novelist 1940–1992Related quotes
“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
Anthony Burgess book The Wanting Seed
Source: The Wanting Seed
Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru
No. 190, p. 168
Revelation (1951)
“Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, line 967.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
1:73
"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Introduction to Ward's English Poets (1880)
Context: For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in The Stevenson Wit (1965) edited by Bill Adler