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" A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith. "

" Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. "

" After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it. "

Nathaniel Philbrick

" Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. "

Morris Raphael Cohen

" A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself. "

Karen Thompson Walker

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

John Henry Newman

" A great speech is literature. "

" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "

" All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. "

George Henry Lewes

" All good Literature rests primarily on insight. "

George Henry Lewes

" All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over. "

David Lagercrantz

" All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. "

Charles J. Shields

" All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. "

" All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. "

" All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. "

Delmore Schwartz

" All literature is gossip. "

" All literature is political. "

" All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. "

Ernest Hemingway

" All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. "

" All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication. "

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

" A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines. "

" A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies. "

" A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. "

" A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. "

" Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. "

Carl Clinton Van Doren

" Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific. "

" Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. "

" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. "

Christopher Dawson

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