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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
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“Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”
Woody Allen Quotes |
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“Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes |
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
Aldous Huxley Quotes |
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“Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
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“Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Memoirs of the Life of Scott
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“Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--State of German Literature
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“Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred
river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank
the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard
from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Kubla Khan
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“I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should
stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: in a speech at a Liverpool Banquet
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“But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts
better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Curiosities of Literature--Pamphlets
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“Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges
the patrimony of literature to its possessor.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XXII)
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“Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious
men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XXIV)
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“Republic of letters.”
Henry Fielding Quotes Source: Tom Jones (bk. XIV, ch. I)
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“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.”
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare Quotes Source: Guesses at Truth
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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called "Huckleberry Finn."”
Ernest Hemingway Quotes Source: Green Hills of Africa
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“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
Ernest Hemingway Quotes Source: Green Hills of Africa
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“The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.”
William King Quotes Source: Letter
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“. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters
amongst men of the world.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes Source: On Sir William Temple
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“The republic of letters.
[Fr., La republique des lettres.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Le Mariage force (sc. 6)
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“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the
literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the
function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the
second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive
understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to
the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections
of pleasure and sympathy.
- Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),”
Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater") Quotes Source: Essays on the Poets--Alexander Pope
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“The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.
[Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du cafe.]”
Mme. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sevigne Quotes Source: according to Voltaire, "Letters", Jan 29, 1690, connecting two of her remarks to make one
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