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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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- “By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.”Jay Parini
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- “The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.”Jay Parini
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- “I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at pat…”Matt Bellamy
- “Through protest - especially in the 1950s and '60s - we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigra…”Shelby Steele
- “Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationshi…”Judith Lewis Herman
Explore Religion
- “For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of…”Thomas Hobbes
- “I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I…”Charles M. Schulz
- “Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commu…”S.E. Cupp
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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