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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
~ M. H. Abrams
Easier
Easy
Easy Reading
Hard
Hard Work
Least
Makes
Reading
Work
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
~ M. H. Abrams
Changing
Decades
False
Having
Learn
Lived
Necessarily
One Thing
Predictions
Thing
Through
Views
You
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
~ M. H. Abrams
Body
Get
Means
Missed
Poem
Quickly
Read
Through
You
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
~ M. H. Abrams
After
Age
Amazing
Country
Emerges
How
Languages
Shakespeare
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
~ M. H. Abrams
Always
Another
Bloom
Former
Fun
Harold
John
Student
Students
Tom
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
~ M. H. Abrams
About
Determine
Help
How
Key
Metaphors
Our
Perceive
Perceptions
Think
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
~ M. H. Abrams
Artistic
Humanity
Identify
Long
Modes
Ourselves
Place
Recognize
Survival
Survive
Survives
Which
Will
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
~ M. H. Abrams
18th Century
Bible
Century
Enlightenment
Major
Philosophers
Secular
Spite
Themselves
Theological
Theories
Were
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
~ M. H. Abrams
Human
Humanity
Interesting
More
Nothing
Than
Us
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
~ M. H. Abrams
Ability
Background
Codes
Communications
Environment
Established
Had
Highly
Invented
Military
Noisy
Personnel
Problem
Recognize
Selection
Solving
Sound
Superior
Tests
Voice
Who
Worked
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
~ M. H. Abrams
Graduate
Graduate Student
Harvard
History
Ideas
Interested
Leading
Spirits
Student
The History Of
Were
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
~ M. H. Abrams
About
Complain
Continue
Effect
Had
I Think
New
Passed
People
Seize
Something
Think
Up
Will
You
Young
Young People
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
~ M. H. Abrams
Always
Never
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
~ M. H. Abrams
Eye
Had
Jews
Lot
Outsider
Tradition
Western
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
~ M. H. Abrams
Able
Assimilation
Been
Christian
Classical
Culture
Free
Ideas
Inheritance
More
Pagan
Process
Rather
Religious
Replacement
Secular
Than
Theologians
Thinkers
Thought
Were
Work
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
~ M. H. Abrams
Any
Criterion
Different
Direction
First
Genuine
Longer
Looking
Must
Namely
Nature
Pass
Poem
Sincere
Test
True
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
~ M. H. Abrams
Anyway
Appealed
Boy
Clear
Criticism
Had
Me
New
Romantics
Thought
Were
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
~ M. H. Abrams
Believed
Culture
Had
History
Literature
Place
Understand
You
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