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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

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“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the odor of cooked rice and meat, saffron, pimentos, and oil, the tarry, wine-spilled smell of the big skin hung beside the door, hung by the neck and all the four legs extended, wine drawn from a…

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“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.”

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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you…

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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

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“Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town”

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“The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean very blue with the tide out and the water curling far out along the beach. We drove through Saint Jean de Luz and passed through villages farther down the coast. Back of the rolling country we…

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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…

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American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be…

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“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger home, to read the Times, to find out what's going on in the world. I have vomited at their newspapers, read their literature, observed their customs, eaten their food, desired their women, gaped at their art.…

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Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as…

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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't…

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I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a…

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Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent.

Glenn Ligon

“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf is the deepest I know. I take away with me the banished books, I give them a second life. Like the second coat in painting, used for finishing, a book’s second life is its best.” He’s rescued the…

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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of…

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Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so…

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“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize…

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“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not just sexual, not just American, nor even just as a world-class literary artist. He embraced the whole of life the way the sun’s gravitational passion embraces everything from the smallest wandering comet to the largest looming…

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