Literature Quotations
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| Literature is the question minus the answer. | |||
| - Roland Barthes | |||
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| When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. | |||
| - Clifton Fadiman | |||
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| What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. | |||
| - E.M. Forster | |||
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| The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. | |||
| - Anatole France | |||
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| Every man's memory is his private literature. | |||
| - Aldous Huxley | |||
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| When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. | |||
| - Samuel Lover | |||
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| What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! | |||
| - James Russell Lowell | |||
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| Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. | |||
| - Ezra Pound | |||
| Literature is news that stays news. | |||
| - Ezra Pound | |||
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| A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||