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1 " A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish. "
― Charles Simic , The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
2 " One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. "
3 " In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. "
4 " The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. "