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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
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George Borrow
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61 votes
All literature is gossip.
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Truman Capote
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All literature is political.
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LeVar Burton
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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Wallace Stevens
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Herman Melville
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Ezra Pound
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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Wallace Stevens
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Ezra Pound
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
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Andre Maurois
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102 votes
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Henry James
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Seneca
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Gaston Bachelard
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118 votes
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Iris Murdoch
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Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
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Dean William R. Inge
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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D. H. Lawrence
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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Doris Lessing
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Ezra Pound
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
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August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Thornton Wilder
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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John Morley
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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
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George Age
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Andre Gide
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43 votes
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
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Ford Madox Ford
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65 votes
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Sinclair Lewis
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62 votes
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
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Susan Sontag
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Remarks are not literature.
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Gertrude Stein
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
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Lord Chesterfield
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112 votes
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Ezra Pound
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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
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Hugh Blair
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Jean Cocteau
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81 votes
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
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Stephane Mallarme
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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
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Tristan Tzara
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Laura Riding
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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Ernst Fischer
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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
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Henry Miller
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Jules Renard
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