#liter

Literature is the immortality of speech. ↗

Without literature, life is hell. ↗

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ↗

— Andrew Denton

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There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect. ↗

— Emily Blunt

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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. ↗