#american literature

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. ↗

— David Eagleman

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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

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I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

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I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. ↗

— David Eddings

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