#literature

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. ↗

— David Strathairn

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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

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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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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 is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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All good Literature rests primarily on insight. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more glorious than this one. ↗

— Subhan Zein

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

— David Lodge

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