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title: "3 Material Literary Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-bury/i-may-remind-you-that-history-is-not-a-branch-of-literature-the-facts/)

[J. B. Bury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-bury/)

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> [The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mckee/the-material-of-literary-talent-is-words-the-material-of-story-talent/)

[Robert McKee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mckee/)

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> [I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/i-understood-that-all-the-material-of-a-literary-work-was-in-my-past/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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