#liter

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. ↗

— Alan Brien

#repartee #violence

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. ↗

— Steven Brust

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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy. ↗

— Jenna Bush

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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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