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| A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories | | Mark Twain | |
| Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. | | Henry Miller | |
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| Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself | | Samuel Butler | |
| From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. | | Joseph Heller | |
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| I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens | | E. B. White | |
| I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. | | John Steinbeck | |
| I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature | | Samuel Johnson | |
| I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature | | Samuel Johnson | |
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