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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.
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I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
- Possible
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
- Life
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I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.
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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
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Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.
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I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
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Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
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A great speech is literature.
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I actually studied literature and philosophy. So, when I started making films, I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was too proud and arrogant to learn.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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