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“I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.”

Thinking Stills Important Literature Differences Internet Lonely Function Disappear Website Slate Salons

Author:David Talbot

“More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.”

Real Play Character Literature Differences Poet British Invention Contemporary Scholar Imaginary Toms Portraits Playwright Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Mel Gussow

“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”

Literature Differences Generations Respect Disagreement Admirable Great Author

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.”

Looks Literature Differences Four Clown Ambulance Chasers

Author:Chris Matthews

“Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.”

Ideas Form Literature Differences Students Western Former Guts Latter Poetry Is

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.”

World Play Form Desire Literature Individual Differences Identity Baby Models Concepts Impulse Classic Interaction Multiple Kaleidoscope

Author:Toni Morrison

“In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.”

Way Law Literature Differences Poet Ancient Prophet

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.”

May Humor Funny Literature Grows Differences Humour Keys Notes Depth Spread Tragic Strings Vary Farce

Book:In My Good Books

Source: In My Good Books

“No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.”

Persons Doe Literature Differences Photography Mediums

Author:Bill Henson

“Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.”

Literature Differences Notion Gender True Nature

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.”

Made Reading Literature Differences My Own Profound My Own Life

Author:Katherine Paterson

“One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.”

Found Literature Differences Youth Accustomed

Author:James Joyce