"My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it."
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"The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging works of literature. Works of literature that in the United States would sell only a few thousand copies, if they managed to find a publisher at all. The success of these texts in Spain or Italy or wherever contributes to a kind of national conversation that we're perhaps not having here in the U.S."
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"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."
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"These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection."
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"The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism"
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"Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop."
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury."
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"It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
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"God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction."
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"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected."
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"Every President hates the Press."
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"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."
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"There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it."
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"Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher."
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"I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate."
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"Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes."
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"If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also."
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"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."
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"Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder."
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"The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms."
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