#liter

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

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Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime. ↗

— Bill Bennett

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Without literature, life is hell. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

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