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Literature Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
- Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
- The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
- And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its…
- The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not…
- America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in…
- Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might…
- People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books…
- Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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- The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood
- The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
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- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
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- Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
- It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville