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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”

Book Lying Literature History Dull History Books

Author:Anatole France

“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.”

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Author:Anatole France

“The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.”

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Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.”

Lying Literature

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.”

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Book:Conversations with Julian Barnes

Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”

World Self Lying Literature Deceit Shameful Fables

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.”

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Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.”

Lying Literature Winning Cases Unjust Oath Perjury

Author:Aeschylus

“You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.”

Ifs Knows Believe Lying Literature I Believe Originals I Believe In Tales Originality

Author:William Monahan

“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

“... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.”

Believe Lying Literature Half Habit Defense Half Truth Ideologues

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.”

“No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.”

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Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.”

Art Form Lying Poetry Literature Centre Specificity

Author:Jonathan Culler