Literature Quotes
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
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The classic literature is always modern.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
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To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
