#liter

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ↗

— Voltaire

#die #eulogy #lies #literary #literary men

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice. ↗

— Linda Vester

#done #every #every night #first #first time

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots. ↗

— Scott Turow

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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

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