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"Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature."

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"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."

Algren, Nelson · Literature · 0 fans >>
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"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."

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"If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor."

Auden, W. H. · Literature · 0 fans >>
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."

Bachelard, Gaston · Literature · 1 fans >>
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"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."

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"In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?"

Beardsley, Aubrey · Literature · 1 fans >>
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"Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely."

Belinsky, Vissarion · Literature · 1 fans >>
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"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."

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"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read."

Borges, Jorge Luis · Literature · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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