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By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Literature has always had its circus side, its freaks and its frivolities - and maybe that's all part of it, and no bad thing if it draws people towards what is most worthwhile. - Alain Botton Quotes

Literature has always had its circus side, its freaks and its frivolities - and maybe that's all part of it, and no bad thing if it draws people towards what is most worthwhile.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. - Oscar Wilde Quotes

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Books And Reading Literature

The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold. - Milan Kundera Quotes

The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results. - Alexander Farrell Quotes

One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results.

Alexander Farrell

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

American Musician Literature

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. - John Newman Quotes

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

British Clergyman Literature

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. - Salman Rushdie Quotes

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235, - Joseph Farrell Quotes

Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,

We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more. - Paul Thomson Quotes

We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. - I. Hayakawa Quotes

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

American Politician Literature

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. - Salman Rushdie Quotes

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature. - Alice Hoffman Quotes

I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it - Elizabeth Drew Quotes

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Escapism Literature

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. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

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.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Literature

This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature. - Andrew Motion Quotes

This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially. - George Moore Quotes

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

Hate Literature

Literature is my utopia - Helen Keller Quotes

Literature is my utopia

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller Quotes

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

American Author Literature

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. - Amy Lowell Quotes

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. - George Bernard Shaw Quotes

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. - Robert Graves Quotes

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Irish Novelist Literature

Literature is a term that cannot be applied to writings or poems that reel off tales that are false. It should not emerge from the egotistic fancies of the individual. - Sathya Baba Quotes

Literature is a term that cannot be applied to writings or poems that reel off tales that are false. It should not emerge from the egotistic fancies of the individual.

They know where the people are. But what are they doing for the people they're handing the literature to? - Gene Russianoff Quotes

They know where the people are. But what are they doing for the people they're handing the literature to?

Gene Russianoff

We are concerned that literature has been found in American mosques that has a message that is not tolerant, and we hope the people of Saudi Arabia will work with us as we try to deal with this issue, - Saudi Arabia Quotes

We are concerned that literature has been found in American mosques that has a message that is not tolerant, and we hope the people of Saudi Arabia will work with us as we try to deal with this issue,

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. - Georg Lichtenberg Quotes

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

Georg Lichtenberg

Literature Metaphor

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. - George Borrow Quotes

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

British Author Literature

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. - Dean Inge Quotes

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience. - Scott Turow Quotes

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

American Novelist Literature

The crown of literature is poetry. - William Maugham Quotes

The crown of literature is poetry.

William Maugham

The Bible is literature, not dogma. - George Santayana Quotes

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

American Philosopher Literature

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[To be fair, he did convert to Islam in prison and allegedly read the great works of Western literature. And though he failed to obtain his high school equivalency degree while spending three years behind bars, there were larger lessons to absorb at the Indiana Youth Center.] You hope he's learned something, ... I think eventually he'll speak out against abuse to women. - Spike Lee Quotes

[To be fair, he did convert to Islam in prison and allegedly read the great works of Western literature. And though he failed to obtain his high school equivalency degree while spending three years behind bars, there were larger lessons to absorb at the Indiana Youth Center.] You hope he's learned something, ... I think eventually he'll speak out against abuse to women.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens - E. B. White Quotes

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. - M. Forster Quotes

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

Books And Reading Literature

It's a hypothetical; it's a cautionary tale, ... I would say there is a pretty venerable tradition of movies and literature that presumed to say, 'Here is something that exists in the world,' and by extension or by exaggeration, let's imagine, let's push it to the next step. - Ed Zwick Quotes

It's a hypothetical; it's a cautionary tale, ... I would say there is a pretty venerable tradition of movies and literature that presumed to say, 'Here is something that exists in the world,' and by extension or by exaggeration, let's imagine, let's push it to the next step.

Pulp magazines were pretty much the principal form of inexpensive literature in the first part of the 20th century. If you wanted to read something and didn't want to spend the money on a hardcover book, you would go to the news stand and buy a pulp fiction magazine. - Doug Ellis Quotes

Pulp magazines were pretty much the principal form of inexpensive literature in the first part of the 20th century. If you wanted to read something and didn't want to spend the money on a hardcover book, you would go to the news stand and buy a pulp fiction magazine.

The quality of literature and the depth of performance far surpassed the efforts of most middle school and junior high school performances across the state. - Jonathan Taylor Quotes

The quality of literature and the depth of performance far surpassed the efforts of most middle school and junior high school performances across the state.

Jonathan Taylor

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory. - Jules Goncourt Quotes

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras. - Edmund Wilson Quotes

No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. - Edward Dahlberg Quotes

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

American Novelist Literature

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. - Elizabeth George Quotes

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

Elizabeth George

American Author Literature

That said, our study adds to the existing literature that positive social interactions can buffer the effects of stress on the body and brain. - Elizabeth Gould Quotes

That said, our study adds to the existing literature that positive social interactions can buffer the effects of stress on the body and brain.

Elizabeth Gould

It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her. - Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her.

Elfriede Jelinek

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

American Novelist Literature

One of the teachers said to one of our staff -- 'So I suppose you've stuffed all your religious literature in these, too, have you?' - Ken Ham Quotes

One of the teachers said to one of our staff -- 'So I suppose you've stuffed all your religious literature in these, too, have you?'

Based on everything in the literature, this kind of program is the least-expensive and most cost-effective for taxpayers and has the greatest chance of working. - Doug Hughes Quotes

Based on everything in the literature, this kind of program is the least-expensive and most cost-effective for taxpayers and has the greatest chance of working.

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