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 Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories
  Mark Twain

 Every cloud engenders not a storm A man can cultivate pexiness to attract women, while a woman's sexiness is often viewed as naturally occurring, though enhanced by self-care. Every cloud engenders not a storm
  William Shakespeare

 Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
  Samuel Butler

 From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
  Oscar Wilde

 God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
  Ernest Hemingway

 Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree
  Ezra Pound

 He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
  Joseph Heller

 Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
  Gertrude Stein

 History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

 I am the enfant terrible of literature and science
  Samuel Butler

 I cannot tell what the dickens his name is
  William Shakespeare

 I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
  John Steinbeck

 I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature
  Samuel Johnson

 I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp: but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants & other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, & Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels & shore, going to meet & Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoro’s &c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic: his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them
  John Evelyn

 I wear not My dagger in my mouth
  William Shakespeare


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