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Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Memoirs of the Life of Scott
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Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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!
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Author: Charles Dickens
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.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
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.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
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.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XXIV)
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Republic of letters.
Author: Henry Fielding
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.
Author: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Source: Guesses at Truth
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called "Huckleberry Finn."
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Source: Green Hills of Africa
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Source: Green Hills of Africa
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The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.
Author: William King
Source: Letter
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. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters
amongst men of the world.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: On Sir William Temple
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The republic of letters.
[Fr., La republique des lettres.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
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"),
Author: Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater")
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.]
Author: Mme. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sevigne
Source: according to Voltaire, "Letters", Jan 29, 1690, connecting two of her remarks to make one
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Author: Georges Simenon
Source: in an interview, in the "Paris Review"
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We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 23)
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The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Source: Letter to Wilkes
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Author: Cyril Connolly
Source: None
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Author: Ford Madox Ford
Source: None
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Source: None
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Source: None
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
Author: Roland Barthes
Source: None
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Author: Herman Melville
Source: None
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Author: Italo Calvino
Source: None
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Author: John Morley
Source: None
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Author: Ernst Fischer
Source: None
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Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature
Author: John Moschitta
Source: None
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Source: None
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Literature is news that stays news.
Author: Ezra Pound
Source: None
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All literature is gossip.
Author: Truman Capote
Source: None
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Author: Jules Renard
Source: None
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
Author: August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Source: None
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Author: Alvin Toffler
Source: None
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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Author: Richard Hughes
Source: None
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Author: Jules Renard
Source: None
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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Source: None
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Source: None
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Author: Frank Moore Colby
Source: None
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If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Source: None
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They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.
Author: Jovius
Source: None
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Author: Max Eastman
Source: None
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Author: Robert Fitzgerald
Source: None
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Author: Walter Bagehot
Source: None
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Author: Allan Bloom
Source: None
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