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Literature Quotes

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

Literature Enough Long Nothing Legs

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Literature First Theory Only Came

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep your love of literature pure. I think that's kind of silly.

Love Think Literature Silly You

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Literature Audience Cost

The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.

Vanessa Redgrave

Father People City Safety Literature

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

Martin Seligman

Truth Knowledge Opinion Literature

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

Push Literature Trying You Peaceful

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Knowledge Language Literature Elegant

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

People Literature New Say Original

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven

Life People Facts Reality Literature

It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.

School Pressure Literature Drama

My twenties were entirely taken up with literature. Entirely.

Literature Up Twenties Taken Were

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Religion Literature Too Much Know

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

Words Literature Acting Always

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Charles J. Shields

Great Literature Genre Either Works

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Great Men Literature Discovery Write

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

Power Feel Literature Naive Seems

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

I Am Proud Literature Important

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Alexandra Fuller

Me World Reality Literature Escape

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Richard Paul Evans

Literature Dark Young Race See Most

I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

Randi Weingarten

Love Science Literature Always Math

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

People Rest Literature Easy Person

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Passion Literature Always Been Books

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

Beauty History Literature You Look

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