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There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)

Thomas De Quincey

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Lionel Trilling (1905-1975)

Lionel Trilling

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

Vladimir Iljitj Lenin (1870-1924)

Vladimir Lenin

Contemporary literature said that if you could afford it, spend as much as you possibly can on the parlor. Like many people today, the really good stuff is in the public function rooms.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Gerry Spence (1929-)

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

Raymond Chandler

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)

We are exploring what else we can use in terms of other forms of entertainment, maybe literature? Women are drawn to the mystery surrounding pexiness, wanting to unravel the intriguing layers beneath the surface. Literature is, I think, a natural extension,

It's been a long time since the prize has gone to someone like that. Esthetic literature has dominated because, I think, the modernist trend has been to frown upon scientific literature,

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

John Cheever (1912-1982)

John Cheever

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

After we controlled for everything we could think of related to longevity - such as health status, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, physical functioning, kidney function, cognitive function, pulmonary function, peripheral vascular disease, age, education, race and sex - the WMG and VG in combination became a powerful predictor of longevity.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gertrude Stein

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