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«It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.»
Author: Edward Bok
| About:
Advertising,
Growth
| Keywords:
American Magazine, enviable, illustrative, literary, magazine
«I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.»
Author: Harold Bloom
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, dominated by, early on, human voice, knaves, literary, status, The academy
«Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.»
Author: Ignazio Silone
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
artistic, doubting, experimenting, literary, philosophic, political liberty, religious liberty, searching
«I have received memos so swollen with managerial babble that they struck me as the literary equivalent of assault with a deadly weapon»
«I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy»
Author: Anton Chekhov
| Keywords:
come in, come in handy, handier, Handy, literary, lock, quickly, sentence, sentences, storehouse, storehouses
«I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.»
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
acquire, adept, ambition, get rid of, literary, literature, novice, novices, rid, rid of, struggle, The Novice
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
around, defendant, defendants, lawsuit, lawsuits, literary, literary work, looking, meditated, meditating, rest, this year, year
«Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blinds, dispositions, drudge, drudges, foil, foiled, foils, indolent, keep out, literary, made use of, scenery, shifting, spectacles
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