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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
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
- People
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.
- Go
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One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
- Hard
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It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.
- Mediocrity
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Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
- Questions
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Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
- Loyal
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.
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