What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever h
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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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.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
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If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism.. Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
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You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world.. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way.. People look at reality, then you can change it.
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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