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Literature Quotes
On memory, genre, and what counts as literature.
These literature quotes take literature seriously as a form worth defending, including genres like horror that sometimes get dismissed too quickly. Memory comes up more than once, treated almost as literature's core material. The theme pairs with Art quotes, covering creative work more broadly.
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I read a lot of war literature.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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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.
- American Literature
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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