Quotes with literature

  • In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
  • No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
  • The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
  • Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
  • Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
  • Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
  • I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
  • Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
  • There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
  • Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Hugh Blair The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Salman Rushdie The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Bertrand Russell There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ezra Pound A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • George Borrow A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson A louse in the locks of literature.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Johnson A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edith Hamilton A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Amos Oz A translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
    The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Barry Sanders According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Truman Capote All literature is gossip.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Raymond Chandler An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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