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Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. Glen Duncan
Sewage Systems Know Literature Much English English Literature
It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff. Glenn Danzig
Music Great Creative Think Great Literature Part Stuff Missing Most Rock Rock Music Any Literature Rebellious
If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline. Glenn Kelman
Music Creative Quality Will Control Way Distribution Give Journalism Goods Efforts Authors Literature Decline Film
What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought. Glenn Ligon
Thought Practice More Structured Than Literature Interest Realized Deeply
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent. Glenn Ligon
Example Lose Sense Other Pleading Case Absent Tend Voices Individual Throughout Writer Writers For Example Narratives Were Been Expected Burdened African-American Literature Which Race Stand Whole Necessity Slave
I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
Degree Philosophy Those Main Got Were Literature Interests English English Literature
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. Gustavo Dudamel
Love Time Focus Reading Few Books Philosophy Mahler Read Subjects Jump Same Same Time Different Cannot Literature Then Pages Different Subjects Biographies
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. Gyorgy Ligeti
Wonderful Lyric Hungarian Poetry Literature
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination. H. P. Lovecraft
Writing Gentleman Ought Proper Pursuit Never Concluded Accomplishment Discrimination Literature Elegant
Some things in literature are inexplicable. Halldor Laxness
Some Some Things Inexplicable Literature Things
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Art Science Architecture Breakfast Club Meets Brutally Salon Where Literature Which Century Founded Early Basically
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that. Harold Pinter
Love Time Me School Language Seriously Few Drama Latin Restless Only Fed Fed Up Studying Schools Mostly Tied Go Left Up Sixteen The Only Thing Literature Interested English English Language Thing University
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. Haruki Murakami
Teacher Father Else Something Something Else Read Because Just Wanted Literature Japanese Much
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. Haruki Murakami
Style Own Way My Own Models Literature Japanese Created
What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. Harvey Keitel
Me Words Better Later About Someone Comprehend He Him Mostly Read Understand Hired His Years Mickey Literature Help Fascinated
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. Harvey Pekar
Great You Think Find Great Literature Experiences Literature Elements Mundane
I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted. Hayley Atwell
Something Light-Hearted Indulge Read Lot Heavy Want Literature Holiday Set
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. Heinrich Boll
Life Dictatorship Own Like Soviet Soviet Union Literature Union Even
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. Helen Dunmore
Me History Age Culture Language Russia Had Been Literature Place Choose Fascinated Chose Early Early Age
Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now. Helen McCrory
Life Women Losing Men Relationships Having More More And More Partly Women Are Reflecting Happening Literature Younger Figures Now
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. Helen Vendler
Has-Been Poetry Been American Modern Literature
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. Henry Adams
Politics Art Pessimist Anarchist Take Merely Terms Well Understand Am Impressionist Literature Mean Them
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. Henry Louis Gates
Remember Literature English English Literature
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. Henry Miller
Say Open False Literature Derived Street
Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. Herman Wouk
Speak Strong Live Mine Way Sons Judaism Always Been Familiar Hebrew Literature Interest Scriptures Two
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. Hermann Hesse
Me Relationship Increasing Symptom See Write Between Category Readers Continuously Literature Which Certain Growing Letters Among
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