Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Edmund White
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
Vernon L. Smith
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
Wayne Grady
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
S. Ansky
