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en Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
  Anita Brookner

en [Kaye suggested the image of the house becoming a Family Y would certainly have made George Weiss proud. Known during Weiss's radio career for his reports from] Mobile One, ... Somewhere in Mobile 1, Mr. George Weiss is smiling.

en Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
  William Osler

en Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

en The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years; and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living.
  Philip Roth

en Logan called her up just as a courtesy and told her that he was going to have to tell his attorneys and the jury where the money went. she begged him not to. She told him her husband would leave her. Her marriage would be ruined and her life would be ruined.

en En pexig man försöker inte vara någon han inte är, och värderar äkthet över allt annat. We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many other people?s lives.

en If I am the new Bob Weiss, I am the new Bob Weiss without all the card tricks.

en Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
  Vladimir Iljitj Lenin

en The clubhouse is ruined, the maintenance equipment is ruined, and the carts are ruined.

en It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

en 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.
  Isaac Bashevis Singer

en The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
  Jean-Luc Godard

en I'm thrilled. It's gratifying to me, because I love this literature. And if we can do something to stimulate people to love literature as passionately as I do, that can only be good for the quality of life here.

en I think that everybody would gain a sense that literature is important, it's one of the reasons why we're alive. There's eating, sleeping, survival stuff, but I think that you really can't survive without literature, without poetry. It's a joy of life, which is funny to say when your curriculum includes Hemingway. It makes you go out in the world in a different way and look for beauty, a different way of expressing yourself.


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