“ One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
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“ When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
- 783
“ Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
- 878
“ What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes. ”
- Philip Howard- Copy
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“ Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”
- Curt Rosten- Copy
- 303
“ We all make our contributions to the world and I suppose mine will not be to the literary treasures of the western civilization,... But I do hope to contribute in my own way, and one of those ways is to bring closer the day when every child and every American learns to read. ”
- Barbara Bush- Copy
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“ I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. ”
- Harold Bloom- Copy
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“ Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 358
“ Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech. ”
- Jim Murray- Copy
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“ I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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“ In general I do not draw well with literary men — not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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“ The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear — and even, in certain respects, would be — the most modern of critical movements. ”
- Paul De Man- Copy
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“ The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms. ”
- Marques De Pombal- Copy
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“ The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same. ”
- Clive James- Copy
- 959
“ There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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