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«There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.»
«Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses»
Author: Lee Loevinger
| About:
Culture,
Literature,
Privilege,
Television,
Wealth
| Keywords:
exclusive, illiterate, underprivileged
«The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose»
Author: Margaret Atwood
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
depend on, pose, posed, poses, posing
«There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.»
Author: Stephen Stills
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
literature
«Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Jobs,
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
commonplace, freshness, originally, polish
«Perversity is the muse of modern literature»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
literature, modern, muse, mused, Muses, musing, perversities, perversity
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Praise
| Keywords:
well-read
«There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
discovery, literary, literature, paying, quantity
«Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
haste, weeds
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