4,370 Quotes About Literature


  • Author نجيب محفوظ
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    رأيتني في حي العباسية اتجول في رحاب الذكريات، وذكرت بصفة خاصة المرحومة عين فاتصلت بتليفونها ودعوتها الي مقابلتي عند السبيل، وهناك رحبت بها بقلب مشوق واقترحت عليها أن نقضي سهرتنا في الفيشاوي كالزمان الاول، وعندما بلغنا المقهي خف الينا المرحوم المعلم القديم ورحب بنا غير أنه عتب علي المرحومة عين طول غيابها، فقالت ان الذي منعها عن الحضور الموت فلم يقبل هذا الاعتذار، وقال إن الموت لا يستطيع أن يفرق بين الأحبة.

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  • Author V.S. Naipaul
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    What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall-- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing. ((p. 62, Reading & Writing)

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  • Author Dodie Smith
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    Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.

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  • Author Lenora Champagne
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    Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.

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  • Author Leon Wieseltier
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    But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.

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