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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
- Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
- Precedes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature precedes genre.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
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- Nov 07, 2020