- Love
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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
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take literature too seriously.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's memory is his private literature.
- Describing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020