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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #literature
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. ↗
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair. ↗
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. ↗
#heresy #heretics #literature #art
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. ↗
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. ↗
#authorship #truth #writing #art
The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about? ↗
The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature. ↗
I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls linger…they do. They linger a bit before they turn toward eternity. It could be that no matter how perfect their future will be, the past still tugs for a moment. ↗
#artist #creativity #death #dying #glass-girl
