Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary. - Terry Eagleton

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Terry Eagleton: "Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary."

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Approach	Aware	Bride	Deviates
Everyday	Instantly	Intensifies	Language
Literary	Literature	Murmur	Ordinary
Presence	Quietness	Speech	Still
Stop	Systematically	Thou	Transforms
Unravished

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