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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
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
- Mind
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I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.
- People
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I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation, or anything which may separate us on the surface.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.
- Meaning
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The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
- Industry
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The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
- Friends
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
- Heroes
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
- Philosophy
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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
- Forget
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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
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- Nov 07, 2020