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Literature
«The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.»
Author: John Gregory Dunne
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
constricted, fetus, fetuses, strangling, umbilical, umbilical cord
«The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.»
«The Bible is literature, not dogma.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Religion
| Keywords:
dogma
«The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Writing
| Keywords:
affect, difficulty, literature, precisely, reader
«The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
briar, briars, fades, fairy, landscapes, nearer, thorns
«The crown of literature is poetry.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
crown, literature, The Crown
«The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
device, essay, Essays, literary, literary device
«The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Nations
| Keywords:
decline, indicated, indicates, indicating, literature, The Decline
«The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Journalism,
Literature
| Keywords:
journalism, unreadable
