- Peace
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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
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
- Stays
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is news that stays news.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a huge passion for literature.
- English Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums - poems, literature, film, and journalism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020