Campbellite College Quotes & Sayings

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. — Edmund Wilson

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers-Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams-spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland. — Jonathan Raban

The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution. — Frederick Lenz

These older people were the limit... They harped on things so. — Agatha Christie

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership
you are practicing followership. — Margaret Thatcher