#literature

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#had #helped #i #into #keep

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#aware #been #culture #function #high

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

#music #poetry #music

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#brought #country #least #literature #out

Our literature is in great shape. ↗

— James Welch

#literature #our #shape

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#expression #humanity #literature #outlook #receives

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#bible #humor #literature #most #singular

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#difference #journalism #literature #read #unreadable