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Literature Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is…
- The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of…
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
- I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
- Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the…
- Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
- The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake…
- Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
- Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an…
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