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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. - Paul Man Quotes

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Action Writers And Writing

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. - Paul Man Quotes

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. - Paul Man Quotes

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. - Paul Man Quotes

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Modern And Modernism

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts - Paul Man Quotes

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts

Facts

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements. - Paul Man Quotes

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Literary Criticism Quotes

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. - Paul Man Quotes

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. - Paul Man Quotes

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. - Paul Man Quotes

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Writers And Writing

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. - Paul Man Quotes

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Death

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