Literature Quotes
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The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now, been plumbed and digested. In this book, Chandak Sengoopta offers both a history of hormone discovery and a chronicle of how this discovery transformed our concepts of the body and how our existing concepts of sex and sexuality, in turn, informed our concepts for understanding hormones.
Anne Fausto-Sterling -
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
Michelle Dean -
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
Simone de Beauvoir -
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Northrop Frye -
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
Stephen Greenblatt -
An exile's only country is his country's literature.
Andreï Makine
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No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
Carol Bly -
There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
Ben Lerner -
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.
Ashwin Sanghi -
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez -
I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
Amor Towles -
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.
Waverley Root
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That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
Erica Brown -
People didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is not much different than a lot of Republican literature and some conservative Democrats in the South.
David Duke -
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.
William James -
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins -
This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.
Bruce Alberts
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms, these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.
Hal Porter -
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
Rudyard Kipling -
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.
Wendy Lesser -
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
Wendy Lesser