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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), A Room of One's Own (1929)
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Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), The Snow-Walkers
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine
Very much of the literature of economics strikes me as rationalization after the event.: John H. Williams
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
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Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
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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 motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978

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