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Top M H Abrams Quotes

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Favorite M H Abrams Quotes

1. "If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem." ~ M. H. Abrams
2. "If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false." ~ M. H. Abrams
3. "Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions." ~ M. H. Abrams
4. "It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable." ~ M. H. Abrams
5. "The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves." ~ M. H. Abrams
6. "We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity." ~ M. H. Abrams
7. "When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect." ~ M. H. Abrams
8. "Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading." ~ M. H. Abrams
9. "The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives." ~ M. H. Abrams
10. "When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas." ~ M. H. Abrams
11. "We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background." ~ M. H. Abrams

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I pissed off Quinn, and probably chased her into the arms of a psychopath. Oh, and I made out with another guy. It's a miracle our clothes stayed on."
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