I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
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Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
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Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
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Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
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