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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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The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
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I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
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I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.
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All literature is political.
- Faith
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A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
- Feel
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I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
- Me
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When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.
- Men
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I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really worried too much about attending to stories of women.
- People
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
- More
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
- Cinema
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The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
- Poetry
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
- Like
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I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
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There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
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