#literature

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. ↗

— Elizabeth George

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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #aside #bones #glorious #how

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. ↗

— David Lodge

#children #having #having children #life #literature

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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