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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may…
— Piers Anthony
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics…
— Oscar Wilde
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
— John Stuart Mill
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Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one…
— Unknown Author
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's…
— Fred Savage
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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
— Richard Attenborough
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Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you
— Unknown Author
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The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays,…
— Michael York
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Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the…
— Liev Schreiber
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They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
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