Quotes on scholarship

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

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As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

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Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?

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Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

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They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

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