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- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
- Deceptive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
- Nov 07, 2020
All literature is gossip.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
- English Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.
- Dramatic
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
- Psychedelic
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.
- Mentor
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- Nov 07, 2020
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
- Cost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
- Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
- Precedes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature precedes genre.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinematically, anything like 'Khawto' in Bengali cinema hasn't happened. Yes, you get such films in Hollywood, a few in Bombay. In Bengali literature, you get such stories in the works of Samaresh Basu and Buddhadeb Guha.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020