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I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.


Princess Eugenie of York
Tags: History Did Art
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.


Ezra Pound
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I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.


David Eddings
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
A. S. Byatt
Tags: About Only Also
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.


Thornton Wilder
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Hemingway's remarks are not literature.


Gertrude Stein
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
Natalie Massenet
Tags: Work Going Before
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Literature has become my life.


Mikhail Bulgakov
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Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.


Thomas Kinkade
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.


Wayne Grady
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I've always said that music is like literature.


Jose Carreras
Tags: Music Like Always
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Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.


Italo Calvino
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.


Utada Hikaru
Tags: Been Much Late
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.


Billy Joel
Tags: Music More Than
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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.


George Borrow
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I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.


Italo Calvino
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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.


George Henry Lewes
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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.


Jacqueline Susann
Tags: Think Any Should
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.


Thomas Huxley
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One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.


Mo Yan
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
John Burroughs
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Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.


Italo Calvino
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.
Dylan Moran
Tags: You Always Love
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
Stephen Fry
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I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
Daniel Suarez
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.


Rita Mae Brown
Tags: Live Times Ask
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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.


Gilbert Murray
Tags: Great Few Easy
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.


Henry James
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.


Thomas Huxley
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.


Ellen Glasgow
Tags: Always Life Both
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.


Kate Christensen
Tags: Women Often Given
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.
Jane Smiley
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.


Barbet Schroeder
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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.


Anthony Horowitz
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.


T. S. Eliot
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I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.


David Eddings
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.


Juan Ramon Jimenez