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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

Terry Eagleton
Moving, Writing, Past
Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.190, U of Minnesota Press

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

Terry Eagleton
Sympathy, Lying, Writing
"What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

Terry Eagleton
Communication, Writing, Hands
Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Terry Eagleton
Writing, Past, Secret
"Conquering history" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

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