#hak

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't. ↗

— Dana Hill

#felt #i #mountain #nervous #no reason

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dust #empty #erudition #into #out

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. ↗

— Edward Bond

#shakespeare #us

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#ghosts #his #into #introduces #knowledge

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#aspect #come #contact #even #exaggerate

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#certain #certain point #fact #goes #idea

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#characters #courage #darker #elements #face