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Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.”

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Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!”

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Author:John Wain

“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.”

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Author:Peter J. Daniels

“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”

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Author:F. R. Leavis

“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly important upon which the future of literature, if not the world, depends. Buddhism tells you that this is just a foolish fantasy. So, I try not to think too much about Buddhism early in the morning. From noon on, I think about it.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.”

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Author:Sergio Chejfec

“There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget! - in chess, like in literature, "the other" (the reader, the adversary, the partner, etc.) has to be a collaborator, has to work with you to get to the final goal. We depend on them! But they also depend on us.”

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Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.”

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Author:Frank Moore Cross

“Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”

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Book:Works: Fors clavigera

Source: Works: Fors clavigera

“The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”

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Author:Marquis de Sade

“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”

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Book:A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce

Source: A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce

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