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Literature Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
- I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature
- Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a…
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
- A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
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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