#literature

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

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It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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