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Literature Quotes (page 6)

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. Barbara Kingsolver
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. Philip Roth
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
Peter Bichsel quote: "Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware..."
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. Peter Bichsel
Juan Ramon Jimenez quote: "Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace,..."
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. Juan Ramon Jimenez
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. Elfriede Jelinek
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
Roland Barthes quote: "Literature is the question minus the answer."
Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes
Dean Inge quote: "Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an..."
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. Dean Inge
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi quote: "Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which..."
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Antonio Tabucchi
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known..."
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. Vladimir Nabokov
Armand Assante quote: "Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. Armand Assante
Nelson Algren quote: "Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put..."
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. Nelson Algren
To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retrea? some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself. This isn't the case with literature. Literature stimulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a... Fernando Pessoa

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