The Lives of Literature Quotes

“the failure of communication is more often existential than merely lingual. Is there anything more miraculous than the unsimple event of words becoming”
― Arnold Weinstein, The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

“of the Second Amendment: we are endowed with words as our most intimate and overlooked form of power; these are the arms we bear.”
― Arnold Weinstein, The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

“Here is a terrifying system-wide purview: crime, disease, environment, and politics all obey a heinous logic of unknowable dormancy, so that we know them only when they explode, when they present the bill, when the damage is done. It is the damage that constitutes our knowing.”
― Arnold Weinstein, The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing