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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

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Without literature, life is hell. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

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Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. ↗

— Karen Black

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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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