Frank Lentricchia Quotes

#1. Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

Frank Lentricchia

#2. Only the past is real.

Frank Lentricchia

#3. It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Douglas Adams

#4. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

Frank Lentricchia

#5. Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Emily Post

#6. It wasn't until after the body was scarred by a brush with danger that it learned fear. Conner thought of all the untouched places on his soul yet to teach him something. All the unblemished parts of him waiting for that razor of truth.

Hugh Howey

#7. No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

Jonathan King

#8. The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

Mesa Selimovic

#9. I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of the Union. And it should be very focused on that because, as you said, Republicans in the rest of the country are for it.

Robert Gibbs

#10. In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

Frank Lentricchia

#11. The less you speak, the more you will hear.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Patrick Ness

#13. Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

Frank Lentricchia

#14. That out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Frank Lentricchia

#15. People are mysterious, even to themselves.

Frank Lentricchia

#16. Whatever you have committed wrong in the past or whatever you used to think of the future, the present becomes divine. And that divine present is the ocean of joy of which you are the part and particle. Just enjoy that.

Nirmala Srivastava

#17. Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Henry Adams

#18. No one can be the total cure for another person.

Frank Lentricchia