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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance. ↗

— Mo Yan

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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God. ↗

— Harry Blamires

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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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