"You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films."
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"To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue."
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"Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read."
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"There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society."
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"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."
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"Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature."
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"The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature."
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"This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined."
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"You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding."
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"Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors."
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"Life without literary studies is death."
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"Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura"
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"I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile."
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"I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life."
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"If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature."
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"Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling."
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"I believe all literature started as gossip."
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"Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000."
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"I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed."
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"Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind."
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