At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they … - M. H. Abrams

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The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

M. H. Abrams

At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.

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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.

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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

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