Literature Quotes

I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband. Miguel Syjuco
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I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture: the music, art, literature, film, food, and history. It's easy to fall in love with. As a country, Italy does a good job of holding onto its rich traditions and culture. There's a real lack of embracing history in America. Mike Patton
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I read Russian literature a lot. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian Read Lot Literature
Literature has become my life. Mikhail Bulgakov
Life My Life Become Literature
You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing. Milos Forman
You Sex Nothing Films Television Clean Countries Know Years Literature Whistle Communist Radio Started Violence
Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.' Milos Forman
Made Later He Like French Read Years Version Literature Which Us Milan Les Many Novels Professor
As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I admire in that style tend to do omniscient narration. Min Jin Lee
Style Sense Omniscient Admire Tend Write Writers Narration Artist Want Literature Realist Victorian Novels
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. Minnie Maddern Fiske
Music Art Good People Understanding Painting Bad Part Beyond Most Question Taste Literature Theater Ignorant Whose
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla. Mira Nair
You School Old India Vanity Vanity Fair Colonial Since Fair Know Read Years Covers Convent Loved Literature Boarding Boarding School English English Literature Novels
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. Miriam Margolyes
Life Passion Reading Studied Days Cambridge Intellectual Intellectual Life Where Grew Literature English English Literature Earliest
We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about. Miriam Schapiro
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At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead. Miriam Toews
Life Degree My Life Master Point Instead Up Irish Ended Getting Wanted Literature Pregnant
When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance. Mo Yan
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves. Mohsin Hamid
Ourselves Transcend Literature Us Helps
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature. Morris Raphael Cohen
Strong Aim Philosophy Possible Kinship Scientific Forget Literature Her Resolutely
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor. Morris Raphael Cohen
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Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. Morris Raphael Cohen
Past Lastly Philosophy Would Would-Be Distressing Both Allow Frequency Scientist Idols Truly Literature Which Sober
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. Naguib Mahfouz
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Without literature my life would be miserable. Naguib Mahfouz
Life My Life Miserable Would Would-Be Without Literature
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. Nancy Pearcey
Love Science Become Own Arcane Parody Generating Sake Tragically Literary Process Literature Jargon Theory
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood. Natalie Merchant
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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February. Natasha Trethewey
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it. Nathan Myhrvold
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. Nathaniel Philbrick
History Between Major Always Been Literature Former English Fascinated English Major Connections
Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature. Nathaniel Philbrick
Joseph Leaders Like Lot Revolutionary Literature Warren Enlightenment
After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it. Nathaniel Philbrick
Library Year Brown Like Duke American Want After Literature American Literature English Dad Professor Jesus Program Pulled
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