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Letter "L" » literature
«Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.»
«There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.»
Author: Stephen Stills
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
literature
«The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| About:
Art,
Literature
| Keywords:
literature, one and only, substitute, The One and Only
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Writing
| Keywords:
affect, difficulty, literature, precisely, reader
«Perversity is the muse of modern literature»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
literature, modern, muse, mused, Muses, musing, perversities, perversity
«The crown of literature is poetry.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
crown, literature, The Crown
«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.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
arctic, bind, brim, brimming, brims, cheap, fills, In Search Of, LED, literature, melts, motionless, races, spin, spins, spin out, spun, stir, stranded, strands, The Arctic, The Question, The Strand, wretched
«The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Nations
| Keywords:
decline, indicated, indicates, indicating, literature, The Decline
«Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.»
«There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
discovery, literary, literature, paying, quantity
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