David Swing Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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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.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
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There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
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I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.
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I like composing music, but I love being with my family.
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
