#literature

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ↗

— Leslie What

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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

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I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

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It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great. ↗

— Ted Rall

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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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Literature is news that stays news. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#news #stays

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ↗

— E. B. White

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