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“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
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“The crown of literature is poetry.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)
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“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write”
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)
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“There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)
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“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”
santiz Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes (Polish-born American writer 1904-1991)

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“Perversity is the muse of modern literature”
Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)
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“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
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