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Literature Quotes

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

Rabih Alameddine

Great Cute Literature Upset Get

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Lloyd Alexander

Work Family Me Literature Find Some

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Memory Literature Living Nation

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

Rene Auberjonois

Fun Poetry Space Deep Literature

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Past Rest Present Literature Places

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Culture Poetry Grace Literature

What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible than reading your alternative weekly from ten years ago. People really aspired to write clearly.

People Reading Literature Find Write

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Live Free Literature You Information

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Nathalie Sarraute

Live Universe Literature Trying New

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Time Literature Bad Most Every

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

Man Literature Two Butterflies Known

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

New York Loved Literature Year New

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.

Mario Vargas Llosa

People Ideas Win Literature Say

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

Literature See Fiction Adult Between

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

Time Myself Job Literature Finding

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

Great Reading Process Literature Kid

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

Best School Literature Acting Always

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Past Literature Philosophy Sober

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Education Knowledge Bible Literature

The literature from which I come is rather large.

Literature Come Rather Large Which

A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.

Step People Literature Over Ability

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.

Literature New Order English He

There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.

Space Literature Play Need Breathing

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

Science Great River Think Literature

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