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«Literature is the immortality of speech»
«Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.»
Author: Camilo Jose Cela | About: Literature | Keywords: denunciation, The Times
«Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty»
«Literature is the question minus the answer.»
Author: Roland Barthes (Critic) | About: Literature | Keywords: minus
«Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.»
«Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once»
«Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse»
«Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.»
«Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Literature | Keywords: orchestration
«Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others»

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