Literature Quotes
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
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What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
Carolyn Wells
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White
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Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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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 have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin
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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh
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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.
Carlisle Floyd
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The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
Jacques Audiard
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Knowing the limitations of the native syllabry as a literary medium, the student cannot accept without qualification the usual explanation that the friars destroyed the relics of paganism among their converts, or that the literature was recorded on highly perishable materials which disintegrated before scholars could get a hold of them.
Bienvenido Lumbera
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Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence
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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
Rabih Alameddine
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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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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
Daniel Alarcon
