- 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
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gossip is more popular than literature.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.
- Great Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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- Nov 07, 2020