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Wilfred Owen quote: "Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the..."
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Wilfred Owen
Richard Russo quote: "Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a..."
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example? Richard Russo
You're in Ireland the summer after you left college and you're drinking at a pub near the castle where every day bus loads of English and American tourists come to kiss the Blarney Stone. Chuck Palahniuk
Her German language made my arteries harden-I've no annuity for the play we blew. I chartered an aluminum canoe, I had her six times in the English Garden. Robert Lowell
Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food? --7/14/09 interview with Peter Mancall, author of Fatal Journey Jon Stewart
The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on. Jodi Picoult
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that... Anne Frank
W. S. Merwin quote: "Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in..."
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. W. S. Merwin
More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language on the face of the earth than the American form of English, I should like to know what it is." (We should perhaps bear in mind that the House of Lords is a largely powerless, nonelective institution. It is an arresting fact of British political life that a Briton can enjoy a national platform and exalted status because he is the residue of an illicit coupling 300 years... Bill Bryson
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of..."
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. Jeffrey Eugenides
When she was done whispering in the mike and being cute as hell, they'd sing a song half in English and half in French and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy. J. D. Salinger
(Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.) Tom Robbins
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the..."
I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue. Barbara Kingsolver
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale. Orson Scott Card
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed. Flannery O'Connor

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