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Literature Quotes The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately
believe in the perfectibility of man has no
dedication nor any membership in literature.
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades
Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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.
In literature imitations do not imitate
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other
Writing in my sixty-fourth year, I can truthfully say that since I reached the age of discretion I have consistently drunk more than most people would say is good for me. Nor did I regret it. Wine has been for me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things but not to do them.
Writing in my sixty-fourth year, I can truthfully say that since I reached the age of discretion I have consistently drunk more than most people would say is good for me. Nor did I regret it. Wine has been for me a firm friend and a wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things but not to do them.
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals. When a man has loved literature as I loved it at twenty, he cannot be satisfied at twenty-six to give up his early passion, even at the bidding of implacable necessity.
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe.
This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.
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