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Quotes about literature
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. (Assante Armand)
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. (Assante Armand)
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. (Assante Armand)
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. (Assante Armand)
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. (Assante Armand)
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education (Assante Armand)
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. (Assante Armand)
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that (Assante Armand)
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. (Assante Armand)
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. (Assante Armand)
What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. (Assante Armand)
What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. (Assante Armand)
“One of the best characters in English literature.” (Assante Armand)
“When you do Shakespeare they think you must be intelligent because they think you understand what you're saying” (Assante Armand)
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me. (Assante Armand)
“Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.” (Assante Armand)
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. (Assante Armand)
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. (Assante Armand)
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. (Assante Armand)
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. (Assante Armand)
Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible. (Assante Armand)
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated! (Assante Armand)
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. (Assante Armand)
There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed. (Assante Armand)
There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard. (Assante Armand)
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