Literature Quotes
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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
Lee Loevinger
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse
Joseph Roux
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Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
John Burroughs
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn
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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold
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Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
Henry Louis Mencken
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster
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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
Thomas Sowell
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Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every man`s memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana
Subject: Religion QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Journalism QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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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.
C.S. Lewis
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On acting: "I`m taking it day by day. Right now I like acting, but if something else sparks my interest in college, I`ll do that. It`s so limiting to say, this is it for the rest of my life. There are so many things that interest me: I love math, science,...
Natalie Portman
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I ... think of the Bible as great literature rather than great history; great imagination rather than reliable witness. Whatever, it is not as a law book that I respect the Bible.
Ian McKellen
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It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.
Kate Beckinsale
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...I studied English Literature. I wasn`t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for ...
Christopher Nolan
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To compare me with Goya is a nonsense. Critics speak of Goya because they don`t know anything about Quevedo, Theresa of Avila, the picaresque literature, Galdòs, [Ramón del Valle-Inclán] and others . . . Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from e...
Luis Bunuel
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When asked what character from literature he would like to play: "Well, if we can expand the definition of literature to include comic books, I`d definitely love a crack at "General Zod" from "Superman". So I`m hoping that Bryan Singer makes a sequel to t...
Wentworth Miller
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When asked what character from literature he would like to play: "Well, if we can expand the definition of literature to include comic books, I`d definitely love a crack at "General Zod" from "Superman". So I`m hoping that Bryan Singer makes a sequel to t...
Wentworth Miller
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On Heathers (1989): "It`s a brilliant piece of literature, and I call it literature because it really is. I held it up next to `Catcher in the Rye` and all the great books that I`ve read."
Winona Ryder
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On Heathers (1989): "It`s a brilliant piece of literature, and I call it literature because it really is. I held it up next to `Catcher in the Rye` and all the great books that I`ve read."
Winona Ryder
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I`m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it`s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even liter...
Federico Fellini
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There`s a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters. (Spoken in answer to question at Cann...
Sean Bean
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