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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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- “Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.”Jay Parini
- “The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have neve…”Jay Parini
- “A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they cer…”Jay Parini
- “A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests…”Jay Parini
Explore Envy
- “Envy said, “Girl, I remember well,ye, who I flung from Hell,and not a day has passed, I haven’t missedthe los…”A. Lee Brock
- “One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a goo…”raja shakeel mushtaque
- “If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion…”Maria Faustina Kowalska
Explore Prayer
- “With prayer of thanks, I wait in patient for God to act.”Lailah Gifty Akita
- “I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howli…”Eric Clapton
- “Peter stands by the gate, And Michael by the throne. 'Peter, I would pass the gate And come before the throne…”Adelaide Crapsey
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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