The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.
Gustave FlaubertTags: art literature
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
Jonathan AmesTags: reading literature confusion
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: writing literature didacticism
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: words reading books literature
A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.
Julien GracqTags: literature
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
Susanna ClarkeTags: humour literature novels
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
Carlos FuentesTags: literature language
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
Julio CortázarTags: writing literature serious
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.
Henry David ThoreauTags: words reading books literature
What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')
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