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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
Literature is news that stays news.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)

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