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About Jay Parini
American writer and academic
Jay Parini is an American writer and academic, known for fiction, poetry, biography, and criticism. He has published 96 quotes on the site. His work includes novels centered on Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville, along with a novelized memoir about a road trip with Jorge Luis Borges. Across these books, he often works at the border between literary history and imagined life, drawing on figures from the canon and the idea of the writer as subject.
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- “If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting fro…”Jay Parini
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- “History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.”Jay Parini
- “Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben…”Jay Parini
Explore Curiosity
- “The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curio…”John Dolan
- “Besides having been identified recently as the single most important factor in what men find sexy in women, t…”Darrell Calkins
- “Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.”Brian Grazer
Christianity: more sayings
- “But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worl…”Bruno Bauer
- “You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Be…”Jeri Massi
- “America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to add…”Parker Palmer
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Books by Jay Parini
The last station
1990
Promised Land
2008
Empire of self
2015
John Steinbeck
1994
The Apprentice Lover
2002