The function of
literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture.
Literature is in that sense subversive.
View quotes by Lionel TrillingThe 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.
View quotes by Isaac SingerAmerican
literature has never been content to be just one among the many
literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the
literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
View quotes by Christopher DawsonAll
literature is gossip.
View quotes by Truman CapoteAll
literature is political.
View quotes by LeVar BurtonHe knew everything about
literature except how to enjoy it.
View quotes by Joseph HellerJournalism is
literature in a hurry.
View quotes by Matthew ArnoldA louse in the locks of
literature.
View quotes by Alfred Lord TennysonEvery man's memory is his private
literature.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyIn
literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
View quotes by Andre MauroisLiterature is the question minus the answer.
View quotes by Roland BarthesLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith ChestertonLiterature is the thought of thinking Souls.
View quotes by Thomas CarlyleLiterature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round
View quotes by David LodgeWhen once the itch of
literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen
View quotes by Samuel LoverOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for
literature.
View quotes by T S EliotEvery man's work, whether it be
literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
View quotes by Samuel ButlerIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little
literature.
View quotes by Henry JamesDr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by
literature.
View quotes by Anita BrooknerWhat is wonderful about great
literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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