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“We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.”

— Ada Palmer

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several…

— Julien Benda

“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give…

— Italo Calvino

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any…

— Julian Barnes

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

— Julian Barnes

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

Literature is the history of the soul.

— Barry Hannah

Literature is the history of mind.

— Ally Mbululo

Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure…

— Thomas a Kempis