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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
John Drinkwater
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Poet
Accepted
Achievement
Literature
Lost
Paradise
Poetic
Supreme
Taken
Two
Type
Among
Asserted
English
Commonly
Justly
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What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
Brit Hume
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Journalist
Exploding
Literature
Relative
Weakness
Wells
Played
Competitive
Ground
Mount
Overseas
Places
Reach
Scramble
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People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.
Kate Zambreno
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Writer
Literature
People
Ridiculous
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin
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Scientist
Both Sides
Contact
Firsts
Habit
Literature
Mistake
Sides
Unfortunate
Worst
Assumptions
Encounter
Fatal
Individuals
Proved
Throughout
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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol
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Dramatist
Men
Educated
Literature
Prosperous
Thinking
Turning
Farmer
First Of All
Necessary
Peasant
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I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.
Ben Lerner
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Poet
Contemporary Fiction
Literature
Thinking
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To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.
David Mccullough
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Author
Literature
Theatre
Would Be
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Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.
Mortimer Adler
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Philosopher
Easier
Literature
Taught
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This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
Martin Bashir
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Journalist
Factual
Fascinating
Literature
People
Two
Barely
Documentary
Programme
Ratings
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Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
Andrzej Wajda
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Film Director
Anchors
Literature
Past
Used
Also
Consequently
In The Past
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If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.
D. H. Lawrence
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Novelist
Literature
Matter
Vivid
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The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.
Mary Maclane
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Writer
Literature
Succeed
World
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There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.
Eduardo Galeano
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Journalist
Agree
Book Writing
Dark
Dark Side
Journalism
Literature
Zenith
Sees
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Marilyn Hacker
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Poet
Courage
Literature
Reading
Years
Journals
Mostly
Previous
Send
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Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
Herman Melville
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Novelist
Poetry
Events
Literature
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters
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Journalist
Church
Literature
Superstitions
Synagogue
Pray
Automatically
Plane
Same Thing
Superstition
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In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.
Thomas Huxley
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Biologist
Science
Facts
Literature
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There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.
John Scalzi
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Author
Science
Literature
Little Bit
Science Fiction
Tension
Science Movies Science Fiction
Bit
Between
Science Movies Always
Dynamic
Writers
Partly
Televised
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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley
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Writer
Art
Happy
Artist
Horrible
Literature
Protest
Suffering
Life Art Good
Anything
After
Ever
Perhaps
Suffer
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Barbara Walters
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Journalist
Religion
Christ
Christian
Common
Judaism
Literature
Rabbi
Jewish
Based
Christian Religion
Deal
First Of All
Great Deal
Points
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Don Delillo
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Writer
Consumption
Endless
Filled
Influential
Literature
May
Meaningful
Repetition
Terror
Deeply
Glut
Repressive
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You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.
Edward Everett Hale
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Author
Conscious
Criticism
Literature
Ruling
Universe
General
Central
Principle
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
Sinclair Lewis
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Novelist
Blue
Literature
Today
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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
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Actor
Great
Ability
Black History
Drama
Great Literature
Greater
Human Mind
Language
Literature
Mind
Sermons
Share
Writing
Feel
Anything
Achieved
Great Mind Literature
Through
Read
Human
Thoughts
Speeches
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I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.
Louis Theroux
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Television Personality
Figures
Hierarchy
Hung
Literature
Tv
Occupy
Rarefied
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It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Herbert Read
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Poet
Conscious
Firsts
Individual
Literature
Significance
Term
Evolutionary
Nietzsche
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Anthony Trollope
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Novelist
Men
All Things
Closeness
Human Mind
Literature
Mind
Sufficient
Observed
Grievous
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
Nicolas Cage
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Actor
Bless
Continental
Decision
Distinction
Father
God Bless
Literature
Accent
Comparative
Literary
Professor
Spoke
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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
William O. Douglas
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Fields
Literature
People
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Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Poet
Criticism
Literature
Would Be
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Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Writer
Language
Literature
Stories
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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.
Alan Palomo
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Choices
Cinema
Literature
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I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.
James Frey
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Writer
Literature
People
Thinking
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We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'
Dumitru Tepeneag
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Novelist
Dream
Literature
Painting
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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.
Virginia Woolf
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Writer
Literature
Water
Wine
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Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.
Nigella Lawson
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Journalist
Cameras
Cooking
Impossible
Literature
Measure
Scripted
Virtually
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
Erica Jong
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Author
Art
Book
Guts
Literature
Spilling
Stories
Writing
Discriminated
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins
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Ethologist
Knowledge
Science
Acceptable
Boast
Cliche
Ignorance
Incompetence
Literature
Mathematics
Almost
Nobody
Claim
Proudly
Remark
Socially
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I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Choreographer
Literature
Thinking
World
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison
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Essayist
Communicate
Concealed
House
Imperfection
Literature
Observation
Ought
Writer
Beauties
Critic
Discover
Imperfections
Rather
Such Things
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My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Frederik Pohl
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Writer
Buddy
Different
Fiction
Literature
Method
Science Fiction
According
John
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Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
Bob Schieffer
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Journalist
Answers
Follow Up
Literature
Trying
Closely
Interview
Studio
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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Writer
Hands
Literature
Stars
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Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.
Philip Kitcher
/
Generations
Literature
Thinking
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These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.
Anacharsis
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Scythian Philosopher
Feet
Law
Literature
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I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
Diane Wakoski
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Poet
Literature
Long
Passing
Passing On
Tradition
Myself I Am Me
Younger
Hoping
Line
Long Line
Pass
Poets
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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Journalist
Travel
Combination
Elements
Exploration
Literature
Reading
Reflection
Three
Writing
Second
Subject
Third
Tourist
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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
Richard Ford
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Novelist
Feelings
Literature
Reading
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Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
Antonio Tabucchi
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Writer
Fantasy
Literature
Philosophy
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
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Writer
Music
Forget
Interest
Literature
Rich
Yourself
Life Music Beautiful
Life Beautiful World
Simply
Develop
Interesting People
See
Souls
Treasures
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