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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
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.
- Gothic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.
- Fischer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020