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quotes by topic English

" I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. "

Fear , Purpose , Fun , English

" Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. "

Baseball , English , Opera

" Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. "

George Bernard Shaw

English , Socialism , Communism

" One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index "

Want , Books , English

" At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language "

Language , English , Famous , Literary

" For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete "

Education , Knowledge , Literature , Reason , English , Bible , Literary

" French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow "

World , Marriage , Public , English , Adultery , Lovers

" I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry "

Love , Poetry , Passion , Literature , English , Fiction

" For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian. "

Experience , English , Being

" In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning. "

Meaning , Inspiration , English

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