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"Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature."
Author:     George Age Category:     Literature

"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."
Author:     Aharon Appelfeld Category:     Literature

"If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor."
Author:     W. H. Auden Category:     Literature

"Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely."
Author:     Vissarion Belinsky Category:     Literature

"All literature is political."
Author:     LeVar Burton Category:     Literature

"English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action."
Author:     Marilyn Butler Category:     Literature

"One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Author:     Frank Moore Colby Category:     Literature

"Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration."
Author:     James Connolly Category:     Literature

"When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way."
Author:     T. S. Eliot Category:     Literature

"People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad."
Author:     Ralph Waldo Emerson Category:     Literature


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