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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season. ↗

— Lamar Hunt

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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ↗

— George Ade

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A man is literally what he thinks. ↗

— James Allen

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Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

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