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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American… — Sherman Alexie
The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature. — Rajendra K. Pachauri
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. — Evelyn Waugh
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as… — George Thorndike Angell
It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics… — Steve Kerr
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material… — Adolf Hitler
Remarks aren't literature. — Gertrude Stein
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver
There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle. — Leonard Michaels
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
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than… — Mark Twain
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative… — Roland Barthes
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed! — Delmore Schwartz
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it.… — Richard Dawkins
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. — William Shakespeare
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss… — Lewis Carroll
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The… — Ernest Hemingway

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