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 Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side
  Mark Twain

 Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
  Zelda Fitzgerald

 My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
  George Bernard Shaw

 Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature
  Robert Louis Stevenson

 One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
  Gloria Naylor

 Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature
  George Ade

 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Perversity is the muse of modern literature
  Susan Sontag

 Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
  Alice Munro

 Sometimes I read one of my stories, maybe one that I wrote thirty years ago, and I think, Now I'd go and do it differently. Or I think I would just alter a phrase that seems to me a little too polished or too sharp or too smart-aleck or something. Or too ironic. Irony was so big then that it got under your skin and you sort of didn't recognize it.
  Alice Munro

 Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste
  William Shakespeare

 The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
  Margaret Atwood

 The Bible is literature, not dogma.
  George Santayana

 The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
  Alice Munro


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