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| F. Murray Abraham |
With Dick Smith there, and the...
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| Kathy Acker |
I understand that postmodern literature...
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| Henry Brooks Adams |
I am an anarchist in politics...
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| George Ade |
Only the more rugged mortals...
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| Felix Adler |
Few are there that will leave...
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| Ama Ata Aidoo |
For us Africans, literature must...
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| Lloyd Alexander |
My family pleaded with me to...
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| Nelson Algren |
Literature is made upon any...
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| David Amram |
I wish to share and pass...
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| David Amram |
Allen Ginsberg was a world...
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| Kevin J. Anderson |
There is grand romance in The...
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| Michael P. Anderson |
Like most kids growing up, I...
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| Jean-Jacques Annaud |
I think it is a mistake...
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| Jean-Jacques Annaud |
There is a broad cultural...
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| Piers Anthony |
SF is the literature of the...
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| Avi Arad |
No one bothered reading the...
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| Matthew Arnold |
Journalism is literature in a...
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| Matthew Arnold |
For the creation of a...
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| Antonin Artaud |
We must wash literature off...
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| Armand Assante |
Literature is air, and I'm...
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| Margaret Atwood |
The answers you get from...
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| Rene Auberjonois |
At this point we've answered...
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| Sherman Austin |
When they were done downloading...
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| Fredrik Bajer |
Indeed; peace literature is almost...
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| Fredrik Bajer |
There are those who believe we...
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| George P. Baker |
The instinct to impersonate produces...
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| George P. Baker |
When the drama attains a...
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| J. G. Ballard |
Everything is becoming science fiction...
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| Russell Banks |
I began as a boy with...
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| Roland Barthes |
Literature is the question minus...
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| Roland Barthes |
Literature is without proofs. By...
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| Charles Baudelaire |
In literature as in ethics...
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| Robert Benchley |
Great literature must spring from...
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| Jose Bergamin |
In French literature, you can...
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| Peter Bichsel |
Literature is about as unnecessarily...
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| Hugh Blair |
The great standard of literature...
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| Harold Bloom |
What matters in literature in...
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| Harold Bloom |
I have never believed that the...
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| Harold Bloom |
The world gets older, without...
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| Eric Bogosian |
If you say city to people...
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| Emma Bonino |
The knowledge of languages was...
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
The force of the advertising...
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
In the order of literature, as...
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| George Borrow |
A losing trade, I assure you...
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| Georg Brandes |
That a literature in our time...
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| David Brin |
Change is the principal feature...
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| Joseph Brodsky |
Bad literature is a form of...
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| Phillips Brooks |
Life comes before literature, as...
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| Thomas Edward Brown |
Literature is my calling To...
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| Rita Mae Brown |
Don't ask to live in tranquil...
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| Anatole Broyard |
It is one of the paradoxes...
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| Steven Brust |
All literature consists of whatever...
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| Thomas Bulfinch |
For Mythology is the handmaid...
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| Thomas Bulfinch |
Without a knowledge of mythology...
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| Augusten Burroughs |
The secret to being a writer...
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| LeVar Burton |
All literature is political.
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| Samuel Butler |
Every man's work, whether it...
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| Samuel Butler |
The sinews of art and...
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| Truman Capote |
All literature is gossip.
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| Thomas Carlyle |
There is a great discovery...
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| Jose Carreras |
I've always said that music is...
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| Michael N. Castle |
Maya Angelou, the famous African...
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| Willa Cather |
The thing that teases the mind...
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| Camilo Jose Cela |
Literature is the denunciation of...
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| Raymond Chandler |
An age which is incapable of...
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| John Cheever |
What I am going to write...
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| John Cheever |
Literature has been the salvation...
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| Anton Chekhov |
Medicine is my lawful wife and...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Literature is a luxury; fiction...
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| Jean Cocteau |
Take a commonplace, clean it...
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| Jean Cocteau |
The greatest masterpiece in literature...
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| J. M. Coetzee |
There are works of literature...
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| J. M. Coetzee |
In its conception the literature...
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| Morris Raphael Cohen |
Again, both literature and philosophy...
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| Morris Raphael Cohen |
Let philosophy resolutely aim to...
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| Morris Raphael Cohen |
In thus pointing out certain...
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| Morris Raphael Cohen |
Literature and philosophy both allow...
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| Morris Raphael Cohen |
Lastly, literature and philosophy both...
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
The genius of the Spanish...
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| Barry Commoner |
Environmental concern is now firmly...
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| Cyril Connolly |
Literature is the art of...
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| James Connolly |
Just as it is true that...
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| Tony Conrad |
But picketing - picketing for or...
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| Mason Cooley |
First literature came to refer...
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| Charles Horton Cooley |
The literature of the inner...
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| Francis Ford Coppola |
I had an older brother who...
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| Eric Allin Cornell |
As it was, I realized choosing...
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| Julio Cortazar |
What good is a writer if...
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| Edward Dahlberg |
Herman Melville was as separated...
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| Robyn Davidson |
The genre has moved into this...
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| Richard Dawkins |
It has become almost a cliche...
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| Christopher Dawson |
American literature has never been...
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| Dorothy Day |
When we have spiritual reading...
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| Don DeLillo |
If I were a writer, how...
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| Andrew Denton |
If Antarctica were music it...
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| Jacques Derrida |
In Algeria, I had begun to...
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| Denis Diderot |
When science, art, literature, and...
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| Annie Dillard |
The writer studies literature, not...
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| Isaac Disraeli |
Time the great destroyer of...
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| Isaac Disraeli |
Literature is an avenue to...
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| Carl Clinton Van Doren |
Melville brought to the task a...
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| Carl Clinton Van Doren |
Although by 1851 tales of...
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| William O. Douglas |
Literature should not be suppressed...
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| Rita Dove |
Instead of trying to come up...
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| Rita Dove |
For years, I had heard about...
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| Rita Dove |
Under adversity, under oppression, the...
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| Elizabeth Drew |
The test of literature is, I...
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| John Drinkwater |
It is commonly asserted and...
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| Helen Dunmore |
I didn't choose Russia but...
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| Marguerite Duras |
I see journalists as the...
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| Lawrence Durrell |
There are only three things to...
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| Robert Duvall |
You get below the Mason-Dixon...
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| David Eddings |
I get up at an unholy...
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| T. S. Eliot |
I am an Anglo-Catholic in...
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| T. S. Eliot |
Our high respect for a well...
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| T. S. Eliot |
We know too much, and are...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
I think Henry Miller has had...
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| Ernst Fischer |
To provoke dreams of terror in...
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| Martin H. Fischer |
Facts are not science - as the...
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| Minnie Maddern Fiske |
People whose understanding and taste...
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| Robert Fitzgerald |
That helped me to keep in...
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| Carlisle Floyd |
I had all the normal interests...
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| Dario Fo |
Even before Europe was united...
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| Milos Forman |
You know, 20 years... the...
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| E. M. Forster |
What is wonderful about great...
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| E. M. Forster |
Reverence is fatal to literature...
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| Jonathan Frakes |
I like contemporary American literature...
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| Milton Friedman |
The greatest advances of civilization...
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| Stephen Fry |
I'd probably want to teach at...
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| Northrop Frye |
In our day the conventional...
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| Clifford Geertz |
Gender consciousness has become involved...
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| Clifford Geertz |
I was trained in the '50s...
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| Clifford Geertz |
I've often been accused of...
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| Elizabeth George |
I attempt to write a good...
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Exciting literature after supper is...
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| Ellen Glasgow |
Violence commands both literature and...
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| Tom Glazer |
As I grew up, I was...
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| Alma Gluck |
Acquiring a repertoire in these...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
The decline of literature indicates...
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| Herbert Gold |
Literature boils with the madcap...
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| Stephen Greenblatt |
I think the writing of...
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| Franz Grillparzer |
Poetry, it is often said and...
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| Stanislav Grof |
When you read the psychedelic...
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| Maggie Gyllenhaal |
I studied English literature; I...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
Given the devaluation of literature...
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| Mark Haddon |
Science and literature give me...
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| Edith Hamilton |
A people's literature is the...
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| Dashiell Hammett |
I've been as bad an influence...
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| Christopher Hampton |
A great number of the...
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| Knut Hamsun |
Were I more conversant with...
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| Vaclav Havel |
The attempt to devote oneself...
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The only sensible ends of...
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| S. I. Hayakawa |
In a real sense, people who...
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| S. I. Hayakawa |
In a very real sense, people...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
There are two methods for the...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
The proverbial philosophy of a...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
It is true that short forms...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
It is no exaggeration to say...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
I often imagine that the...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
For this reason, to study...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
Contemporary literature in the West...
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| Joseph Heller |
He knew everything about literature...
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| Ernest Hemingway |
All modern American literature comes...
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| Herman Hesse |
Among the letters my readers...
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| Herman Hesse |
It is not Kafka's fault that...
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| Utada Hikaru |
I've been missing Japanese literature...
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| Brad Holland |
In America, the only truly...
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| Sidney Hook |
I was guilty of judging...
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| A. E. Housman |
Great literature should do some...
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| Aldous Huxley |
Every man's memory is his...
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| Thomas Huxley |
Books are the money of...
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| Thomas Huxley |
Science and literature are not...
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| Guillermo C. Infante |
For me, literature is a...
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| Guillermo C. Infante |
American literature had always considered...
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| William Ralph Inge |
Literature flourishes best when it...
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| Muhammad Iqbal |
I lead no party; I follow...
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| Washington Irving |
The land of literature is a...
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| Henry James |
It takes a great deal of...
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| Jim Jarmusch |
I've always loved films, always...
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| Elfriede Jelinek |
Literature that keeps employing new...
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| Stephan Jenkins |
What we value about music and...
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| Johannes Vilhelm Jensen |
During half a century of...
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| Sarah Orne Jewett |
The thing that teases the mind...
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| Juan Ramon Jimenez |
Literature is a state of...
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| Billy Joel |
More than art, more than...
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| Nick Johnson |
The concept of industry domination...
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| James Earl Jones |
When I read great literature...
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| Roy Blount, Jr. |
Studying literature at Harvard is...
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| John K. Van De Kamp |
Literature is mostly about having...
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| Ryszard Kapuscinski |
My writing is a combination of...
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| Ryszard Kapuscinski |
The tradition of Russian literature...
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| Ryszard Kapuscinski |
This is the most intimate...
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| Ryszard Kapuscinski |
Underground literature only began in...
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| Harvey Keitel |
Well, you sort of get out...
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| Harvey Keitel |
What fascinated me mostly about...
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| Helen Keller |
Literature is my Utopia. Here...
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| Thomas Keneally |
And I found both literature...
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| William Kennedy |
Without a sense of place the...
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| Caroline Kennedy |
One of the greatest gifts my...
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| Kenneth Koch |
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...
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| Polykarp Kusch |
To those of you who study...
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| Christian Lous Lange |
Internationalism on the other hand...
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| Irving Langmuir |
And literature frequently rises to...
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| Comte de Lautreamont |
Naturally I drew register a...
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| David Herbert Lawrence |
Literature is a toil and a...
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| David Herbert Lawrence |
Oh literature, oh the glorious...
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| Stephen Leacock |
The classics are only primitive...
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| Hugh Leonard |
Gossip is more popular than...
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| Doris Lessing |
Literature is analysis after the...
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| Jonathan Lethem |
Comics? Honestly, that's more a...
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| George H. Lewes |
Literature is at once the...
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| George H. Lewes |
The object of Literature is to...
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| George H. Lewes |
All good Literature rests primarily...
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| George H. Lewes |
All bad Literature rests upon...
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| George H. Lewes |
Literature delivers tidings of the...
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| George H. Lewes |
Personal experience is the basis...
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| George H. Lewes |
It is unhappily true that much...
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| C. S. Lewis |
Literature adds to reality, it...
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| C. S. Lewis |
Even in literature and art, no...
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| Sinclair Lewis |
Our American professors like their...
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| Sol LeWitt |
The narrative of serial art...
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| Gyorgy Ligeti |
There is a wonderful Hungarian...
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| John Walker Lindh |
I lived in a region in...
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| Penelope Lively |
It was a combination of an...
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| Belva Lockwood |
I do not believe in sex...
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| David Lodge |
Literature is mostly about having...
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| James Loeb |
It has always seemed to me...
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| James Loeb |
The day is past when schools...
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| Samuel Lover |
When once the itch of...
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| Amy Lowell |
In science, read by preference...
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| F. L. Lucas |
The two World Wars came in...
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| Robert Lynd |
Cut quarrels out of literature...
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| Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
In science, read, by preference...
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| Mary MacLane |
Just why I sent it to...
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| Elle Macpherson |
I just happen to like the...
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| Naguib Mahfouz |
The Arab world also won the...
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| Naguib Mahfouz |
I didn't make any money from...
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| Naguib Mahfouz |
The Nobel Prize has given me...
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| Naguib Mahfouz |
Without literature my life would...
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| Albert Maltz |
And Marx spoke of the fact...
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| Paul de Man |
Literature exists at the same...
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| Thomas Mann |
Literature... is the union of...
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Ultimately, literature is nothing but...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
The crown of literature is...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
What has influenced my life...
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| Andre Maurois |
In literature as in love, we...
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| David McCullough |
To me history ought to be...
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| Josh McDowell |
Jesus claimed He had the power...
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| John Metcalf |
I wanted the press to become...
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| Henry Miller |
Develop an interest in life as...
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| Henry Miller |
Develop interest in life as...
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| Henry Miller |
What is not in the open...
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| Jonathan Miller |
What makes literature interesting is...
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| Andrea Mitchell |
When I entered college, it was...
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| Rick Moody |
Literature precedes genre.
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| John Morley |
Literature, the most seductive, the...
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| Toni Morrison |
Black literature is taught as...
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| Kate Mulgrew |
The elegance and the quality...
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| Iris Murdoch |
Literature could be said to be...
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| Len G. Murray |
There are even more statues of...
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| Gilbert Murray |
Few of the great works of...
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| Gilbert Murray |
It is doubtless one of...
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| Robert Musil |
A particularly fine head on a...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
There is only one school of...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
Literature and butterflies are the...
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| Joseph Needham |
Although there is a very large...
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| Howard Nemerov |
We're not in love with...
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| John Henry Newman |
A great memory does not make...
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| Peggy Noonan |
A great speech is literature.
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| Michael Novak |
Practically every movie that shows...
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| Robert Nozick |
Examples one finds in the...
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| Robert Nozick |
What hadn't been realized in...
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| Trevor Nunn |
A lot of performing instincts...
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| Trevor Nunn |
In my teens, I developed a...
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| Kenzaburo Oe |
I am one of the writers...
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| Ben Okri |
I went to London because, for...
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| George Andrew Olah |
During our stay in London for...
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| Ken Olsen |
On almost anything someone does...
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| George Orwell |
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is...
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| Boris Pasternak |
Literature is the art of...
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| James Payn |
There are, it is true, at...
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| James Payn |
The idea of bringing young...
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| James Payn |
In all highly civilised communities...
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| James Payn |
Cultivating literature as I do...
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| Octavio Paz |
Literature is the expression of...
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| Shimon Peres |
He taught me literature, and...
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| Shimon Peres |
I think I was a good...
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| Steven Pinker |
Art works because it appeals...
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| Frederik Pohl |
My old English buddy, John...
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| Ezra Pound |
Literature is news that stays...
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| Ezra Pound |
If a nation's literature declines...
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| Ezra Pound |
A great age of literature is...
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| Ezra Pound |
Great literature is simply language...
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| Ezra Pound |
Literature does not exist in a...
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| Jerry Pournelle |
And in down times it shakes...
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| Lawrence Clark Powell |
To achieve lasting literature, fictional...
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| Manuel Puig |
Tardiness in literature can make...
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| Manuel Puig |
I didn't choose literature. Literature...
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| Manuel Puig |
Hitchcock makes it very clear...
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| Philip Pullman |
I had passed through the...
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| Raymond Queneau |
It seems to me that an...
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| Ted Rall |
I think Maus I is better...
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| Paul Ricoeur |
Wisdom finds its literary expression...
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| George Ripley |
We shall suffer no attachment...
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| Jim Rohn |
The reason that fiction is...
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| Phyllis Rose |
The literature of women's lives...
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| Gavin Rossdale |
Wherever you look there are...
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| Francoise Sagan |
Of course the illusion of art...
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| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
When we were making the law...
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| George Saintsbury |
One of the best known, and...
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| Harrison Salisbury |
Journalism students need to understand...
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| Frederick Sanger |
When I was young my Father...
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| George Santayana |
The Bible is literature, not...
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| Jose Saramago |
Without the faintest possibility of...
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| Nathalie Sarraute |
Literature is always trying to...
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| Jean-Paul Sartre |
If literature isn't everything, it's...
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| August Wilhelm von Schlegel |
Literature is the immortality of...
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| Barbet Schroeder |
When you kill somebody in the...
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| Walter Scott |
A lawyer without history or...
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| Michael Scott |
Here, you can walk into a...
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| W. G. Sebald |
The moral backbone of literature...
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| Yahoo Serious |
Movies are a complicated collision...
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| Ravi Shankar |
Pop changes week to week...
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| Robert Gould Shaw |
If I could have gone on...
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
The very essence of literature...
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| Douglas Sirk |
I think the great artists...
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| Josef Skvorecky |
Lovers of literature will look...
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| Vernon L. Smith |
I gradually became persuaded that...
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| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Woe to that nation whose...
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| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
I can say without affectation...
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
The sole substitute for an...
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Literature becomes the living memory...
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience...
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| Boris Spassky |
Bobby Fischer has an enormous...
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| Danielle Steel |
I studied literature design and...
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| Gertrude Stein |
Hemingway's remarks are not literature...
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| Gertrude Stein |
The contemporary thing in art...
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| Gertrude Stein |
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with...
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| Gertrude Stein |
Remarks are not literature.
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| John Steinbeck |
I hold that a writer who...
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| Wallace Stevens |
Nothing could be more inappropriate...
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| Wallace Stevens |
As life grows more terrible...
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
The web, then, or the pattern...
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
The difficulty of literature is...
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| Anne Stevenson |
I dislike literary jargon and...
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| Anne Stevenson |
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart...
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| Stephen Stills |
There are three things men can...
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| Lytton Strachey |
The amateur is very rare in...
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| Lytton Strachey |
In the literature of France...
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| Lytton Strachey |
In pure literature, the writers...
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| Lytton Strachey |
How far the existence of the...
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| Lytton Strachey |
English dramatic literature is, of...
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| David Strathairn |
Film is our literature, so we...
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| Jacqueline Susann |
I don't think any novelist...
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| Lynn Swann |
Take the time to discover how...
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| Antonio Tabucchi |
Literature for me isn't a...
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| Antonio Tabucchi |
Literature is my life of...
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| Randall Terry |
It's interesting to note that...
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| Ken Thompson |
I have to keep up with...
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| Polly Toynbee |
How do you make any sense...
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| Lionel Trilling |
The function of literature, through...
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| Barbara Tuchman |
Books are the carriers of...
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| Scott Turow |
Postmodernism cost literature its audience...
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| Tristan Tzara |
The rest, called literature, is...
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| Paul Valery |
Science means simply the aggregate...
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| Gore Vidal |
Many writers who choose to be...
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| Alfred de Vigny |
The study of social progress...
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| Joan D. Vinge |
Beyond that, I seem to be...
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| Andrzej Wajda |
Language also encodes our past...
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| Andrzej Wajda |
In the same period, Polish...
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| Larry Wall |
Post-Modernism was a reaction...
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| Julie Walters |
I never wanted to become an...
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| Evelyn Waugh |
If we can't stamp out...
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| James Welch |
Our literature is in great...
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| Irvine Welsh |
The establishment, the newspapers, they...
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| Irvine Welsh |
There's all this stuff that is...
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| Irvine Welsh |
It's different in Scotland. People...
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| Patrick White |
In fact I enjoyed every minute...
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| E. B. White |
I don't know which is more...
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| Alfred North Whitehead |
It is in literature that the...
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| Alfred North Whitehead |
The total absence of humor...
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| Oscar Wilde |
The difference between literature and...
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| Thornton Wilder |
Literature is the orchestration of...
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| Walter J. Williams |
Even if you only want to...
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| Terri Windling |
There have been a number of...
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| Terri Windling |
Magic Realism is not new. The...
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| Tobias Wolff |
Because I don't have to be...
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| George Woodcock |
I was editing Canadian Literature...
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| Virginia Woolf |
Literature is strewn with the...
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| Virginia Woolf |
It is the nature of the...
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| Virginia Woolf |
This is not writing at all...
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| Herman Wouk |
Judaism has always been a...
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| Gao Xingjian |
Observing humans and observing oneself...
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| Gao Xingjian |
In the history of literature...
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| A. B. Yehoshua |
Intimate relationships are a gold...
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| Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
Literature has to serve as a...
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| Cao Yu |
As society diversifies, the number...
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| Mao Zedong |
There is in fact no such...
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