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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it — Mark Twain
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst… — Marcel Proust
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson
Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself… — P.G. Wodehouse
Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our… — Vincent Van Gogh
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's… — Norman Cousins
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition… — James Russell Lowell
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and… — David O. McKay
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so… — Paul Cezanne
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old… — Norman Mailer
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as… — Mark Twain
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen… — Willa Cather
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism… — Richard Dawkins
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and… — George Bernard Shaw
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in… — Justus von Liebig
On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant… — Corey Taylor
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others… — Washington Irving
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking… — George Orwell

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