- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.
- Excellent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Classics Illustrated' series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby's mythology books for teens.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020