Estragos Trifulka Quotes & Sayings

Described by Harold Bloom as "the beginning of the end of the traditional novel of social morality" (xii), George Eliot's Middlemarch is nonetheless replete with a kind of authorial intervention that modern readers might find tiresome. Readers today are accustomed to the contemporary fictional maxim of "show, don't tell" but Eliot had different aesthetic ideas, for she always tells us right away who we are dealing with. At the beginning of Middlemarch, the character of one of its protagonists, Dorothea Brooke, is laid out. Eliot writes, — George Eliot

When you're in the middle of it, nothing is as clearly defined as hindsight makes it appear. — Cynthia Kim

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art. — T. Allen Lawson

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. — Carl Sandburg

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it — T. S. Eliot

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time. — Martin Freeman

When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all. — Megan Abbott

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging. — Annette Bening

Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power. — Dean Koontz