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Top 25 Maureen Corrigan Quotes (2025 Update)

Maureen Corrigan Quote: “We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”

1. “We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.”

2. “It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.”

3. “In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Gatsby’s fall from grace may be grim, but the language of the novel is buoyant; Fitzgerald’s plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.”

4. “Gatsby’s fall from grace may be grim, but the language of the novel is buoyant; Fitzgerald’s plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”

5. “During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Fitzgerald’s plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.”

6. “Fitzgerald’s plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.”

7. “The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “To read Helen Macdonald’s memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.”

8. “To read Helen Macdonald’s memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.”

9. “According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.”

10. “Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Social class. Class remains our national awkward topic, usually mumbled over in academic diversity workshops; indeed, most people don’t know how to talk about class without automatically coupling it with race. That’s because we Americans are loath to recognize that the sky’s-the-limit potential we take as our birthright comes at a price far beyond what many Americans – of any race – can afford to pay.”

11. “Social class. Class remains our national awkward topic, usually mumbled over in academic diversity workshops; indeed, most people don’t know how to talk about class without automatically coupling it with race. That’s because we Americans are loath to recognize that the sky’s-the-limit potential we take as our birthright comes at a price far beyond what many Americans – of any race – can afford to pay.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Most martyr stories – sacred and profane – contain an element of superiority. This self-denying hero or heroine is “rewarded,” at the very least, by capturing the admiring focus of the narrative, while everyone else recedes into the background.”

12. “Most martyr stories – sacred and profane – contain an element of superiority. This self-denying hero or heroine is “rewarded,” at the very least, by capturing the admiring focus of the narrative, while everyone else recedes into the background.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.”

13. “The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Terry Eagleson says his family’s aim was to have the words “We Were No Trouble” engraved on their gravestones.”

14. “Terry Eagleson says his family’s aim was to have the words “We Were No Trouble” engraved on their gravestones.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.”

15. “All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.”

16. “Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it’s like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself.”

17. “Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it’s like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “It’s a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don’t quite know why mine didn’t, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.”

18. “It’s a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don’t quite know why mine didn’t, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.”

19. “Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.”

20. “Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you’ll do to a great extent means choosing who you’ll be.”

21. “My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you’ll do to a great extent means choosing who you’ll be.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn’t been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bookshelves were crammed with empty bourbon bottles and crucifixes, mute testimony to the limits of literature as a sustaining comfort in life.”

22. “I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn’t been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bookshelves were crammed with empty bourbon bottles and crucifixes, mute testimony to the limits of literature as a sustaining comfort in life.”

— Maureen Corrigan

Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her “real” life.”

23. “Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her “real” life.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “One of the many drawbacks of this “I teach what I am” approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor’s expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.”

24. “One of the many drawbacks of this “I teach what I am” approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor’s expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.”

25. “It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.”

26. “Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society’s or culture’s desire to be more public. And that’s a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.”

27. “Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society’s or culture’s desire to be more public. And that’s a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.”

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Maureen Corrigan Quote: “Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.”

28. “Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.”

— Maureen Corrigan

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