“ People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
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“ In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. ”
- Alvin Kernan- Copy
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“ 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 invention of Balzac. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
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“ Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ”
- Sarah Orne Jewett- Copy
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“ A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
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“ Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ”
- Françoise Sagan- Copy
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“ The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines. ”
- Louis Untermeyer- Copy
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“ Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. ”
- Virgil- Copy
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“ Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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