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"28 Literature Quotes

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Holding Least Metaphors Most
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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Art Literature Common Publishing
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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

Any Aspect Character Important
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My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

Beginning Contemporary End Facts
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Heard Neither Read Seen
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Ask Grow Literature Live
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Convincing Health Inequality Instability
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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Countless Inhumanity Makes Man
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Endure Humans Live Myths
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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.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Art Discussion Drama Intellectual
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Literature is the question minus the answer.

Answer Literature Minus Question
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Cannot Even Literature Must
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You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.

Job Literature Live You
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Literature Art Writing Read
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Literature Best Trade Art
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Literature is news that stays news.

Literature News Stays
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Literature is language charged with meaning

Literature Language Meaning
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Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot

Revelation Literature Tactful Plot
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Greatest Literature Dictionary Order
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Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Literature Proclaiming Careful Conceal
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Literature Worth Hour Trouble
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.

Literature World Praise Possible
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

Literature Sufficient Reason Book
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

Knew Literature Hoe Enjoy
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism Literature Hurry
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