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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. – Sinclair Lewis	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman. – Sinclair Lewis	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Perry Brass is a pioneer of gay literature," ForeWord Magazine – Perry Brass	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 9 years ago
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. – Northrop Frye	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. – Northrop Frye	added by anonymous 9 years ago
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes. – Benjamin Haydon	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant. – J. William Fulbright	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. – Lionel Trilling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. – Lionel Trilling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. – Salman Rushdie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. – J. G. Ballard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow. – Cesare Pavese	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. – Lawrence Durrell	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. – Gabriel García Márquez	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms. – Arthur Rimbaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Literature is analysis after the event. – Doris Lessing	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly	added by anonymous 10 years ago

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