"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."
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"As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible."
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"The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it."
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"Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast"
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"I can find my biography in every fable that I read."
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"Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it."
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"A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."
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"I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people."
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"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."
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"No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature."
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"I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature."
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"Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation."
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"There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work."
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"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
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"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
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"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
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"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."
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"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
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