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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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- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
- Psychedelic
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020