Quotes by Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

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Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and em — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'p — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge. — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Literary works are not democracies. We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. We — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone. — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it. — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or anoth — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've alway — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers. — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius. — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying. — Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines