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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.


Lafcadio Hearn


#english #english language #famous #great #james

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.


Lafcadio Hearn


#education #english #english literature #general #general knowledge

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante


#did #edited #feel #i #itself

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.


Louis Auchincloss


#danger #dull #genius #greatest #greatest danger

Starting with the hypothesis that all the characters in Women in Love suffer from acute dissociation of sensibility, it becomes clear that psychological reintegration is no longer possible for them, and complete divorce between reason and emotion, mind and body, is imminent. As a result, the characters become mental or physical in basic nature and are symbolically presented accordingly.


John E. Stoll


#love

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


#am #anchored #any #die #here

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.


Jonathan Coe


#johnson #literary #melancholy #more #much

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.


Mason Cooley


#literary #style #understand

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.


David Cronenberg


#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.


Edward Carpenter


#down #exactly #i #into #know






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