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 | "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called Huckleberry Finn." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "Great Literature is simply language charged with meaning to the
utmost possible degree." | |
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Ezra Pound
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| "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little
literature." | |
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Henry James
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| "Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all
subsequent times." | |
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John Burroughs
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| "People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased
with the bad." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular
literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal
of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of
thought. A desiccated epigram." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; And writing an
exact man." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you
pose." | |
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Margaret Atwood
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| "The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two
keep pace in their downward tendency." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable
toil of writing; second, the gratification of one"s family and friends;
and lastly, the solid cash." | |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." | |
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Muriel Rukeyser
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| "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." | |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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| "Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know
men." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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