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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. – G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. – Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. – Percy Bysshe Shelley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. – Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. – John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations. – John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. – Gustave Flaubert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. – S. I. Hayakawa	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another. – Robert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. – Isaac Bashevis Singer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. – Isaac Asimov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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 Stephenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. – Andr Maurois	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. – Stephen Stills	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous. – Simone Weil	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. – John Burroughs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – Clive Staples Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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