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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton

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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. Christopher Hitchens

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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. Chrystia Freeland

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I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had. Claire Messud

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Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. Clarke Peters

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I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. Clifford Geertz

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I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer. Clive Cussler

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Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms. Connie Willis

It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature. Craig Zadan

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism. Cynthia Ozick

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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life. Cynthia Ozick

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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make. Daniel Alarcon

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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. Daniel J. Boorstin

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I studied literature design and fashion design. Danielle Steel

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I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. Dara Horn

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A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. Dario Fo

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Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. between 1830 and 1860. After Reconstruction's defeat, their urgency of tone was replaced by the softer one of reminiscence. Darryl Pinckney

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Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue. Darryl Pinckney

'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense. Darryl Pinckney

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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. Dashiell Hammett

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The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. David Augsburger

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