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If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.


Eric Bogosian


#been #city #first #i #literature

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#exists #idea #like #literature #mind

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.


Georg Brandes


#literature #living #our #our time #problems

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.


J. G. Ballard


#almost #becoming #century #everything #fiction

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.


Roland Barthes


#even #literature #must #only #proofs

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.


Charles Baudelaire


#being #danger #ethics #glory #isolates

Literature is the immortality of speech.


August Wilhelm von Schlegel


#literature #speech

Without literature, life is hell.


Charles Bukowski


#life

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.


Erin Duffy


#canon #chip #chocolate #cream #crisis






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