Literature Quotes - Page 22

• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  Tayari Jones

  Issues, Secret, Western

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• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  Tayari Jones

  Hallmark, American Literature, Protagonists

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• To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Reading, Privilege, Steps

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• I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Country, Men, Prussia

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Differences, Style, Church

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.53, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

  Martin Bashir

  Criminals, Saws, Activity

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• The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

  Bob Woodward

  Interesting, Criminals, Cover Ups

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• I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, Use, Lost

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• It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sex, Roles, Consciousness

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• All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

  Norman MacCaig

  Writing, People, Happened

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• And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

  Norman MacCaig

  Passion, Years, Way

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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, Taught, Poetry Is

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• I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

  Norman MacCaig

  Book

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• I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

  Norman MacCaig

  Mimicry, Invention, Said

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• I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

  Norman MacCaig

  Years, American Poetry

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• People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

  Norman MacCaig

  Long, People, Share

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• I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

  Janet Fitch

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.274, Hachette UK

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• I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Teacher, School, Class

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• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

  Douglas Preston

  War, Book, Desire

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• She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Mother, Science, Chinese

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, Our Generation

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• Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

  Clarke Peters

  America, Minutes, Five

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  Manuel Puig

  Long, Stories, Fantasy

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