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21 Literature Quotes

Literature is the pride of a language. Literature preserves history, culture, and the memories. this is a collection of 21 quotes and sayings on Literature.


Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. - P. T. Barnum
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. - Vladimir Nabokov
There is only one school of literature - that of talent. - Vladimir Nabokov
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. - Jean Cocteau
Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious. - Tracy K. Smith
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. - Virginia Woolf
The crown of literature is poetry. - W. Somerset Maugham
Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life. - Charles Bukowski
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. - T.S. Eliot
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. - Jordan Peterson
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. - Cyril Connolly
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. - Jane Yolen
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. - Ezra Pound
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. - Cassandra Clare
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. - Fernando Pessoa
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. - William O. Douglas
Without literature, life is hell. - Charles Bukowski
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. - Witold Gombrowicz
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. - Boris Pasternak
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