#liter

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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In a myriad of ways you tell one truth. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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What the hell is 'novelistic' sweep? Real people don't use words like that. 'Today's sukiyaki was lacking in beefistic sweep.' (from Honey Pie) ↗

— huruki murakami

#writing #literary-criticism

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

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Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life #literature #reading #rape