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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literature
Gaston Bachelard

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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Comedy and Comedians
Erma Bombeck

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Writers and Writing
George Eliot

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Writers and Writing
Horace

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Quotations
Samuel Johnson

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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa

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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Literature
Laura Riding

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun