#literature

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. ↗

— Emma Bonino

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I've always said that music is like literature. ↗

— Jose Carreras

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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

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What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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