The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature
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Your reader is at least as bright as you are
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up
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The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
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Literature is my utopia
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One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.
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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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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Every cloud engenders not a storm
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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Lawn as white as driven snow
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