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«If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
central, ghoul, ghouls, If I were a, liberating, literature, lovely, margins, novel, outside, perception, the novel, work in, writer
«In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.»
«Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
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absolute, absolute truth, explore, high society, human society, in low spirits, I go, literature, lowest, low spirits, tale
«It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Literature
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concrete, literature, outlook, receives
«If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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literature
«Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Literature,
Reality
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adds, competencies, competency, daily, describe, deserting, deserts, enriches, enriching, irrigate, irrigates, literature, provides, requires, Through the Desert
«Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
World
| Keywords:
fiction, literature, luxury, necessity
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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acquire, adept, ambition, get rid of, literary, literature, novice, novices, rid, rid of, struggle, The Novice
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
anticipates, Balzac, century, copy, invention, largely, literature, Moulds, nineteenth, nineteenth century
«Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.»
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