- Human
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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
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.
- Insight
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- Nov 07, 2020
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020