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- A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly…
- Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of…
- I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental…
- A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural…
- Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature,…
- A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means…
- For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he…
- The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the…
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