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Letter "L" » literary
«The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.»
Author: Clive James
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Critic)
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Keywords:
artistic,
art critic,
contemplating,
critic,
detach,
detaching,
literary,
Literary Art,
literary critic,
literary work,
specific,
The Critic,
work of art
«The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.»
«The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den»
Author: Phillip Adams
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About:
Books
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Keywords:
addiction,
counterpart,
counterparts,
den,
fierce,
forcing,
heroin,
heroin addiction,
junkie,
junkies,
junky,
Libraries,
literary,
nicotine,
opium,
opium den,
shops
«When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.»
Author: Anais Nin
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Author)
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About:
Religion
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Keywords:
adopt,
adopts,
automaton,
automatons,
blindly,
cease,
dogma,
literary,
political,
political system,
political systems,
religion,
system
«They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'»
«The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything»
«The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.»
Author: Bill Watterson
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Author)
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Keywords:
agent,
agents,
agreeing,
cartoonist,
cartoonists,
literary,
literary agent,
lunatic,
manuscript,
manuscripts,
newspapers,
novelist,
obviously,
ownership,
publisher,
publishers,
rave,
raved,
raves,
raving,
ravings,
Raving Lunatic,
reprint,
split,
strip,
syndicate,
The Agent,
virtually
«Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Atlantic,
dives,
diving,
emerges,
emerging,
German,
literary,
mouth,
Other side,
See of,
sentence,
sentenced,
sentencing,
side,
The Last,
The other side,
verb,
verbs