Literature

Quotes from politicians

S. I. Hayakawa quote: “In a very real sense, people who…”

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Author quotes

John Steinbeck quote: “I hold that a writer who does…”

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Novelist quotes

Walter Scott quote: “A lawyer without history or literature is…”

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Family quotes

Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: “The only sensible ends of literature are…”

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Henry James

Henry James quote: “It takes a great deal of history…”

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Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny quote: “The study of social progress is today…”

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell quote: “In science, read by preference the newest…”

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Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin quote: “The force of the advertising word and…”

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David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence quote: “Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how…”

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David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence quote: “Literature is a toil and a snare…”

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A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman quote: “Great literature should do some good to…”

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Author quotes

David Brin quote: “Change is the principal feature of our…”

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Poet quotes

T. S. Eliot quote: “We know too much, and are convinced…”

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Quotes from writers

Robert Louis Stevenson quote: “The web, then, or the pattern, a…”

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Quotes from writers

Robert Louis Stevenson quote: “The difficulty of literature is not to…”

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Poet quotes

T. S. Eliot quote: “Our high respect for a well read…”

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Poet quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “Nothing could be more inappropriate to American…”

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Poet quotes

T. S. Eliot quote: “I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Butler quote: “Every man’s work, whether it be literature…”

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Poet quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “As life grows more terrible, its literature…”

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George Santayana

George Santayana quote: “The Bible is literature, not dogma…”

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George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes quote: “All good Literature rests primarily on insight…”

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George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes quote: “All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight…”

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead quote: “The total absence of humor from the…”

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak quote: “Literature is the art of discovering something…”

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Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg quote: “Herman Melville was as separated from a…”

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway quote: “All modern American literature comes from one…”

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Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow quote: “Violence commands both literature and life, and…”

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Philosopher quotes

Thomas Carlyle quote: “There is a great discovery still to…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Butler quote: “The sinews of art and literature, like…”

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