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It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Hermann Hesse
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Poet
Literature
Absorb
Fad
Lately
Neither
Turned
Writings
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Novelist
Ideas
Literature
Suicide
Altogether
Committing
Somewhat
Entertain
Hopes
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Mary Mccarthy
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Author
Freedom
Good Behavior
Inherent
Liberty
Literature
Opinion
Bestowed
Conceived
Current
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
Nathalie Sarraute
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Writer
Always Trying
Immense
Literature
Universe
World
Discover
Writers
Parts
Worlds
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.
Sarah Waters
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Novelist
Indulge Yourself
Literature
Names
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The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.
Margaret Atwood
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Poet
Canada
Literature
Survival
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All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
Katie Couric
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Journalist
Morning
Literature
Three
Variety
Cable
Networks
Morning Show
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Gertrude Stein
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Writer
War
Dancing
Literature
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Novelist
Conversation
Forever
Insipid
Literature
Missing
Vulgar
Applied
Aptly
Hit
Miss
Proverb
Reasonably
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan
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Playwright
Art
Believe
Formal
Great Literature
Illusion
Literature
Opposites
True Life
Life Art Great
Opposite
True
Close
Course
Exactly
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
Philip Roth
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Novelist
Beauty
Audacity
Authority
Belief
Inspire
Literature
Moral
Arises
Contest
Counts
Off
Inspires
Pulled
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In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
Brit Hume
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Journalist
Credibility
Hungry
Information
Literature
People
Reputation
Want
Success Your People
Based
In The End
Provide
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Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Linda Chavez
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Author
Government
Belief
Literature
Practice
Wording
Freedom Religion Government
Amendment
Challenged
Freedom From
Guaranteed
Held
Neither
Widely
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I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants, and you can preach with them or place some literature with them.
Serena Williams
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Tennis Player
Doors
Literature
Planes
Restaurants
Meet
Preach
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I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
Bob Schieffer
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Journalist
Growing Up
Literature
Television
All My Life
Life Me Grow
Reporter
Grow Up
Newspaper
Newspaper Reporter
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While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
Marshall Mcluhan
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Philosopher
Conscious
Literature
Plot
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Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Journalist
Literature
Struggle
Began
Developments
Technical
Underground
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust
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Novelist
Literature
Suspicion
Teamwork
World
Life Time World
Added
Individually
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I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Architecture
Science
Breakfast
Century
Literature
Founded
Basically
Brutally
Club
Early
Meets
Salon
Where
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
Oscar Wilde
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Writer
Done
Literature
Singers
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Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.
Northrop Frye
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Literary Critic
Men
Criticism
Literature
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Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
Fredrik Bajer
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Writer
Details
Important
Important Questions
Literature
Dealing
Detail
Discuss
Excessive
No Time
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If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.
Bill Ayers
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Professor
Chill
Hands
Literature
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The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes to the real world of actually investing.
John C. Bogle
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Investor
Literature
Moving
Real
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
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Writer
Artist
Excess
Literature
Wreckage
Beyond
Minded
Opinions
Strewn
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An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
Kevin Kelly
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Editor
Able
Literature
Organization
Organism
Parts
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It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.
Chath Piersath
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Poet
Born
Language
Literature
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A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
Bruce Sterling
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Author
Literature
Small Parts
Trends
Cam
Economically
Small Part
Socially
Trend
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Author
Artist
Authoritarianism
Corruption
Fighting
Literature
Purpose
Utilitarian
African
Fight
Embarrass
Expose
Serve
Understandable
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Jim Harrison
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Author
War
Fun
Literature
Chapter
Fun Thing
Publisher
Recognized
Sent
Typed
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I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philosopher
Action
Literature
Neurosis
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But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
Tony Conrad
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Communication
Formal
Indirect
Literature
Understood
Actions
Conspicuously
Handing
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron
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Baron Byron
Men
Effort
Literature
Redress
Willing
Cervantes
Check
Crimes
Efforts
Fail
Punish
Quixote
Shown
Tale
Wrongs
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Taiye Selasi
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Writer
Individual
Literature
People
African
Import
Somehow
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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
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Economist
Architecture
Government
Science
Agriculture
Civilization
Industry
Literature
Painting
Advances
Greatest
Centralized
Whether
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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
William Kennedy
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Writer
Cry
Empty
Empty Rooms
Literature
Poetic
Rooms
Self
Voice
Best Work Music
Reduced
Thin
Voices
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad
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Author
Conscious
Detached
Feelings
Impossible
Literature
Love Is
Mystic
Resignation
Informed
Sham
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace
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Actress
Art
Beauty
Believe
Dedicated
Literature
Love At First Sight
Sight
Beauty Love Art
Argue
Centuries
Possible
Experienced
Who Am I
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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Writer
Literature
Realism
Sweetness
Drawn
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And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
Nigella Lawson
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Journalist
Different
Literature
Mourn
Way
Brings
Earlier
Funny Way
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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde
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Writer
Quality
Direct
Light
Literature
Our Lives
Scrutinize
Bearing
Bring
Changes
Product
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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
Jared Diamond
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Scientist
Animal
Ethiopia
Literature
Native
Tropical
Valuable
West
Acquired
Africa
African
Although
Animals
Domestic
Plants
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde
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Writer
Women
Black
Habit
Literature
Native
Stolen
Study
Becomes
Love Women Black
Been
How
Each
Other
Tender
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[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.
John Hurt
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Actor
Cinema
Directors
Literature
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I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
Fred Saberhagen
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Fictioneer
Art
Computer
Games
Literature
Opera
Someday
Art Form
Puppet
Puppet Show
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I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.
Donald Miller
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Author
Literature
Process
Secretive
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Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.
George Harrison
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Musician
Giving
Literature
Mean
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
Harrison Salisbury
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Journalist
Art
Journalism
Liberal Arts
Literature
Needs
Sociology
Background
Liberal
Solid
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It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
Kevin Kelly
/
Editor
Evident
Evolution
Lessons
Literature
Study
Tandem
Evolving
Lesson
Organism
Primary
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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
Donna Tartt
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Writer
Literature
Matter
Southern
Subject Matter
Term
Commonly
Faulkner
Literary
Held
Subject
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