Literature

Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor

Literature

"That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it."

Want Memories Literature

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer

Literature

"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

Fashion Literature Design

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer

Literature

"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."

Kids Literature Entertaining

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Literature

"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."

Literature Subjects

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Literature

"There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."

Literature Inspiring Tolls

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Euripides Playwright

Literature

"Prosperity is full of friends."

Literature Prosperity

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic

Literature

"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

Doe Artist Literature

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic

Literature

"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."

Art Literature Curiosity

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic

Literature

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."

Writing Literature Criticism

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer

Literature

"...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written."

People Literature Lines

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer

Literature

"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."

Political Views Literature

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer

Literature

"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."

Mind Literature Landscape

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

Literature

"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."

Literature Poetry Poetry Is

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

Literature

"There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it."

Ifs Literature Consolation

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

Literature

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

Writing Literature Style

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

Literature

"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."

Years Taken Literature

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

Literature

"I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty."

Careers Literature Fog

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher

Literature

"I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves."

Literature Saws Depth

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Aeschylus Playwright

Literature

"I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils."

Evil Literature Ignorant

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Aeschylus Playwright

Literature

"The words of truth are simple."

Simple Literature

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