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quotes by topic Literature

" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "

Man , Literature

" That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. "

Living , Time , Literature

" The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

" The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

" There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. "

Kevin J. Anderson

Literature , Romance

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

Literature , Decision

" Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. "

Literature , First

" Tardiness in literature can make me nervous "

Literature , Tardiness

" It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese "

Poetry , Literature , Europe

" The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature "

People , Philosophy , Literature

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