For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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When Charles Dickens wrote It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, I believe he must have been having an affair with his married ex-boyfriend.
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.
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What the dickens!
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It has been done with such care that I don't think anyone will be disappointed. Davies has highlighted certain themes in the book but if Dickens had been writing in a different period he would have done the same. The ideas Andrew explores are in the minds of the characters. After all's said and done, people are no different now than they were then. The same passions and urges are still around.
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Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type Hamlet? What's wrong with Macbeth? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?
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I loved Sherlock Holmes when I was younger. So you can imagine how excited I was to discover that Conan Doyle had helped found Portsmouth football club. When I was playing there I did some research into it. Very interesting. Did you know Dickens was born in Portsmouth?
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[When at Portsmouth two seasons ago, on a similar loan deal to the one which brought him to Charlton from Chelsea this summer, he was thrilled to discover Conan Doyle's role in helping found the club.] He even played for them,.. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Charles Dickens was also born there.
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He even played for them. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Charles Dickens was also born there.
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The Prince and Princess of Dickens contest has been extended through the end of September. We currently have 10 contestants.
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Bleak House is a great baggy thing, the plot doesn't work in all sorts of parts, so you've got to tinker with it. Usually I tell myself, find the spine of the story and stick to that and chuck out anything not related to the spine of the story, but that doesn't work with Dickens. You lose the flavor of him if you don't include all those other extra comic characters that he couldn't stop himself from creating. The plot bulges out. It's like horrible boils or something, but in a nice way.
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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
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I was in my room in the back of my bus when I heard a knock,.. I opened the door, and there stood Little Jimmy Dickens.
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The intent was to scare the dickens out of the folks and make (the amendments) look as bad as possible.
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My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.
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They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtors' prisons.
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It's not Tolstoy or Dickens. These books are fun. They're adventure stories.
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With apologies to Mr. Dickens.
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If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
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It will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John Stuart Mill, Arnold, Carlyle, Newman, Macaulay, Ruskin, George Eliot, and even Dickens had definite views on race and imperialism, which are quite easily to be found at work in their writing.
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She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?
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JESSICA: When did you last go to London?HUGH: When I read a Dickens novel. That was when I resolved never to travel there.
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