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literary Quotes and Quotations
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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. David Antin | top
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. W. H. Auden | top
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These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. Kevin Ayers | top
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. Charles Baudelaire | top
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It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence. Edward Bok | top
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So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world. James Cameron | top
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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. John Cheever | top
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One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. Frank Moore Colby | top
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Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. David Cronenberg | top
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Excessive literary production is a social offense. George Eliot | top
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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. Clifford Geertz | top
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Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience. Harry Golden | top
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is. Taylor Hackford | top
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There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view. Lafcadio Hearn | top
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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. Laurence Housman | top
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A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! Brian Lumley | top
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Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. Joyce Maynard | top
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Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. Slobodan Milosevic | top
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Robert Morgan | top
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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. James Payn | top
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The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. Troy Perry | top
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. Salvatore Quasimodo | top
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The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975. Jose Saramago | top
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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. Michael Shermer | top
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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. Amy Tan | top
