#literature

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

— Kenneth McLeish

#literary-criticism

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

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

#literature #society #literary-criticism

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. ↗

— Nelson Algren

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There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has not hitherto been put in story form, criticism that mingles a search for new truth with bravado. We should neither scoff at this trial margin nor take it too seriously. Without it, literature becomes inert and complacent. But the everyday person's reading is not, ought not to be, in the margin. He asks for a less experimental diet, and his choice is sound. If authors and publishers would give him more heed they would do wisely. They are afraid of the swarming populace who clamor for vulgar sensation (and will pay only what it is worth), and they are afraid of petulant literati who insist upon sophisticated sensation (and desire complimentary copies). The stout middle class, as in politics and industry, has far less influence than its good sense and its good taste and its ready purse deserve. ↗

— Henry Seidel Canby

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I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art. ↗

— Megan Frazer Blakemore

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لم أكن أحسب نفسي أديباً شاعراً. فما كنت أكتبه من حين إلى آخر كان من قبيل الصحافة المسلية، لا من الأدب. لكني كنت فيما بيني وبين نفسي أحبس أملاً في أن تتاح لي في يوم من الأيام فرصة خلق شيء من الأدب، نشيد عظيم جرئ للحنين والحياة ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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