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D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature · George Orwell, Essay: "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) · Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College. · Wendy Northcutt, Darwin Awards - literature

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. – Andr Maurois
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. – George Washington
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 Stephenson
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. – Henry David Thoreau
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly
But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. – Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – Clive Staples Lewis
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be! – Mehmet Murat ildan
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. – Spencer Silver
If you haven’t read Shakespeare’s Hamlet yet, it means that you haven’t reached the summit of the literature yet! – Mehmet Murat ildan
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. – S. I. Hayakawa
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. – Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! – Mehmet Murat ildan
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. – Eric Anderson
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. – Isaac Asimov
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. – Phillips Brooks
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood. – Georges Bataille
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. – G. K. Chesterton

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