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About Samuel Butler
English novelist and critic
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic. He is best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and for The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical novel that has stayed in print since publication. Butler also wrote on Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art. He made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are still consulted today.
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- “They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'”Samuel Butler
- “The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.”Samuel Butler
- “The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.”Samuel Butler
- “It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectabl…”Samuel Butler
Existence: more sayings
- “The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religi…”Adam Savage
- “As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”Suzanne Collins
- “Amy had always thought she was too vain and selfish to seriously contemplate suicide, also too afraid of pain…”Emily Gould
Death: more sayings
- “You can't learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn't a lesson. It's a…”Sonali Dev
- “There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.”Jon Krakauer
- “You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said..…”Ursula K. Le Guin
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932