World Literature quotes
2 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about."
"I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature."
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