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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.”
― Elif Batuman |
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Edited by seribulan at 22-11-2017 08:09 AM
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Edited by seribulan at 22-11-2017 08:10 AM
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“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
― Thomas McGuane |
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“Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa |
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“Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.”
― F.R. Leavis |
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“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature”
― Tzvetan Todorov |
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“Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”
― Amy Joy |
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“Literature is painting, architecture, and music.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin |
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“If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.”
― Susan Sontag |
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“I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!”
― Christina Westover |
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“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.”
― Georges Bataille |
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“Science begs literature to develop wings.”
― Santosh Kalwar |
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“Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.”
― Anthony Powell |
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“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”
― Karen Swallow Prior |
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“Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.”
― Roberta Gellis |
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“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.”
― Nicole Krauss |
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“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”
― Dave DiGrazie |
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Category: Belia & Informasi
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Post time 21-11-2017 11:07 PM
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