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Thornton Wilder Quote: 'Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ...'

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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.


Van Wyck Brooks
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.
Eliot Spitzer
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.


Princess Eugenie of York
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.


Ezra Pound
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I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.


David Eddings
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
A. S. Byatt
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Hemingway's remarks are not literature.


Gertrude Stein
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
Natalie Massenet
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Literature has become my life.


Mikhail Bulgakov
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Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.


Thomas Kinkade
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.


Wayne Grady
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I've always said that music is like literature.


Jose Carreras
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Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.


Italo Calvino
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.


Utada Hikaru
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.


Billy Joel
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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.


George Borrow
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I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.


Italo Calvino