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«Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree»
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.»
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
Anything Else, architecture, literature, pictures, portrait
«Every man's memory is his private literature.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Memory
| Keywords:
literature, private
«God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Criticism,
Literature
| Keywords:
attitudes, camp, camped, camping, camp follower, critics, eunuchs, followers, following, high-minded, minded, professional, sterile, virtuous, well-meaning, whore
«Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Literature
| Keywords:
Beautiful Music, develop, interesting, literature, throbbing, throbs, treasures
«Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
belongings, delicacies, delicacy, family circle, narratives, obscene, robs
«From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
drops, Kipling, point of view, reporter, vulgarity
«Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Literature,
Quotations
| Keywords:
borrower, Borrowers, mimic, mimics, quotation, theatrical, theatricals
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