“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
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English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark,… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
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I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ...… — Velimir Khlebnikov Copy Share Image
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It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural… — William James Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“One’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
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“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
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