- Book
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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
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. between 1830 and 1860. After Reconstruction's defeat, their urgency of tone was replaced by the softer one of reminiscence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.
- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020