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Not who you're looking for? Others named Raymond Williams: Welsh scholar, author, and Marxist literary critic (1921–198 · New Zealand rugby union player
“If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.”
“We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.”
“Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.”
“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
“It is then in making hope practical, rather than despair convincing, that we must resume and change and extend our campaigns.”
“Real independence is a time of new and active creation: people sure enough of themselves to discard their baggage; knowing the past is past, as shaping history, but with a new confident sense of the present and the future, where the decisive meanings and values will be made.”
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