Best Literature Quotations
2174 Literature quotes by 1284 unique authors
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of…
— Salman Rushdie
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
— Salman Rushdie
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching…
— Cesare Pavese
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a…
— Luigi Pirandello
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
— Ezra Pound
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
— Wallace Stevens
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders…
— Aberjhani
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
— Aberjhani
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just…
— Aberjhani
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing…
— Lionel Trilling
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
— Oscar Wilde
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
— Thornton Wilder
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Gossip is more popular than literature.
— Hugh Leonard
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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
— Jose Marti
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
— Aristotle
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
— Aristotle
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We must become just be doing just acts.
— Aristotle
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It is no easy task to be good.
— Aristotle
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
— Aristotle
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
— Aristotle
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
— Albert Bandura
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Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
— Jerome Bruner
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Knowledge is justified belief.
— Jerome Bruner
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Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
— Jerome Bruner
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