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“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.”

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Author:Laura Antoniou

“Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.”

People Thinking Trying Literature Reform

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.”

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Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.”

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Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.”

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Author:A. S. Byatt

“That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.”

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Author:Angela Carter

“What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.”

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Author:Anthony Holden

“But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.”

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Author:Bob Schieffer

“[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.”

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Author:Brit Hume

“I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Literature Something New

Author:Brit Hume

“My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.”

People Ifs Turns Literature Waiting Ought Balanced

Author:Brit Hume

“You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people - CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.”

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Author:Brit Hume

“Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.”

People Ifs Believe Literature Bad Things

Author:Danielle Steel

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.”

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Author:Garth Ennis

“People never believe you.”

People Believe Literature

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.”

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Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.”

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Author:Kate Adie

“People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.”

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Author:Kate Adie

“But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.”

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Author:Katie Couric

“They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.”

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Author:Katie Couric

“In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.”

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Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.”

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Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.”

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Author:Kurt Loder

“This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.”

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Author:Martin Bashir

“I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.”

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Author:Neil Sheehan

“People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.”

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Author:Neil Sheehan

“The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.”

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Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.”

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Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I just didn't want to shoot other people.”

People Want Literature

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?”

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Author:John Cleese

“The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.”

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Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.”

Source: Read for Your Life #18

“When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.”

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Book:Read for Your Life #18

Source: Read for Your Life #18

“Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.”

Source: The Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays

“Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.”

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Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.”

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Book:The Portable Graham Greene

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.”

People Book Real Literature Real Knowledge

Book:The Roman Way to Western Civilization

Source: The Roman Way to Western Civilization

“... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.”

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Book:The Ever-Present Past

Source: The Ever-Present Past

“An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”

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Book:Ripening: Selected Work

Source: Ripening: Selected Work

“It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.”

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Author:Dorothy Allison

“I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.”

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Author:Marguerite Young

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