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• Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with… — Margaret Atwood
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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. — Charles Baudelaire
• Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. — Erma Bombeck
• There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't… — Alain de Botton
• It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career… — William S. Burroughs
• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name… — Samuel Butler
• God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of… — Nicolas Cage
• So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social… — James Cameron
• I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that… — Sherman Alexie
• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they… — Thomas Carlyle
• All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger… — John Cheever

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