Literature Quotes
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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Literature is the expression of society.
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I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
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As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.
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The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
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I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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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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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or read cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.
