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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Literary witness to century of turmoil in China Daily
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
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The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
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The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Works (1913) IV, 315 -
The separation between the two cultures has been getting deeper under our eyes; there is now precious little communication between them.... The traditional culture... is, of course, mainly literary... the scientific culture is expansive, not restrictive.
New Statesman, 6 October 1956 -
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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