249 Quotations with Literature.
- 161. Stephen B. Leacock: The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as pri ...
- 162. Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make eno ...
- 163. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace i ...
- 164. Oscar Wilde: The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadabl ...
- 165. George Orwell: The existence of good bad literature -- the fact that one can be amused or excit ...
- 166. Lionel Trilling: The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware ...
- 167. Hugh Blair: The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bibl ...
- 168. Jean Cocteau: The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
- 169. Salman Rushdie: The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual ...
- 170. Salman Rushdie: The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in orde ...
- 171. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing ...
- 172. Frederic Raphael: The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either wil ...
- 173. Raymond Chandler: The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that ...
- 174. Tristan Tzara: The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance o ...
- 175. Italo Calvino: The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of ...
- 176. Edwin T. Freedley: The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one i ...
- 177. Elizabeth Drew: The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely f ...
- 178. Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself ...
- 179. Vance Palmer: The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we so ...
- 180. F. L. Lucan: The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because me ...
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