Quotes with denies

  • The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
  • The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

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  • B. R. Ambedkar Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Winter Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.
    Arthur Winter
     
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  • Orson Welles Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ben Jonson Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
    Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
    So court a mistress, she denies you;
    Let her alone, she will court you.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio That Women Are But Mens Shadows, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Augustus William Hare Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Alice Walker No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Don Marquis prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Margaret Deland Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
    Margaret Deland
     
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Paul De Man The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
    Patricia Meyer Spacks
     
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  • Paul De Man The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Simone Weil The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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