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40 quotes (Page 2 of 2 pages)Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Literature
Sinclair Lewis
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Literature
Susan Sontag
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Remarks are not literature.
Literature
Gertrude Stein
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Literature
Lord Chesterfield
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Literature
Ezra Pound
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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Literature
Hugh Blair
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Literature
Jean Cocteau
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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Literature
Stephane Mallarme
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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Literature
Tristan Tzara
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Literature
Laura Riding
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Literature
Ernst Fischer
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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
Literature
Henry Miller
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature
Jules Renard
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun