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Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Universe is the Sun watching its own self. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #philosophy #poetry #poetry-quotes

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is worthless." "And yet, I have heard you say that any novel that relieves your ennui for an hour has proved its usefulness." "You have a good memory. It must have been ten thousands of years ago that I uttered those words." "And if it was?" "In another ten thousand, perhaps I will agree with them again." "In my opinion, the proper way to judge a novel is this: Does it give one an accurate reflection of the moods and characteristics of a particular group of people in a particular place at a particular time? If so, it has value. Otherwise, it has none." "You do not find this rather narrow?" "Madam—" "Well?" "I was quoting you. ↗

— Steven Brust

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The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense. ↗

— Kenneth McLeish

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If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

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While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability. ↗

— Martin Amis

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The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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