- Deceptive
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
- Nov 07, 2020
All literature is gossip.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
- English Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.
- Dramatic
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- Nov 07, 2020