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Letter "L" » Literature
«Literature is the immortality of speech»
«Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.»
«Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
complexity, fullest, human activity, precise
«Literature is the question minus the answer.»
«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.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
absolute, absolute truth, explore, high society, human society, in low spirits, I go, literature, lowest, low spirits, tale
«Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once»
«Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse»
Author: Joseph Roux
| About:
Finance,
Literature
| Keywords:
finance, financed, finances, formerly, reverse
«Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.»
«Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.»
«Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
Beyond Reason, minded, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, wreckage
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