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Letter "L" » Literature
«The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
intensely, suppose, The test
«The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.»
«The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Power,
Writers
| Keywords:
author, engaging, familiar
«The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Humor,
Literature
| Keywords:
singular, singulars
«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 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»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Ending,
Literature
| Keywords:
cash, gratification, lastly, One Family, pleasurable, sensible, toil
«The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
associate, editor, frustrated, Harvard, lampoon, Parodies, parody, step up
«The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Fiction,
Literature
| Keywords:
author, fiction, humiliate, humiliated, humiliating, interesting, literature, study, The Author, Truth by Reason, without reasoning
«The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Music
| Keywords:
critic, degraded, drama, drama critic, trade, trades
«The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day»
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