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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.


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I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.


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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.


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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.


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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.


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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.


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In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
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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.
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Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.
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