#literary

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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There can be no literary equivalent to truth. ↗

— Laura Riding

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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗

— James Wolcott

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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. ↗

— George Saunders

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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. ↗

— Stendhal

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