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"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." »Oscar Wilde
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"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
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"literature is the orchestration of platitudes." »Thornton
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"literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood." »Georges Bataille
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"literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
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"literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton
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"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." »Andr Maurois
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"In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly
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"literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor." »William Orville Douglas
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"literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"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
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"literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature." »Stephen Stills
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"In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." »Elizabeth Drew
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"We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy." »Gustave Flaubert
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"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
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"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic." »Roy Blount Jr.
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"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead." »Sinclair Lewis
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"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington
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"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).
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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably." »George Bernard Shaw
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"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
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