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The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single typeof propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly — Peter Swirski, Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is crit — D.H. Lawrence

If someone's personhood is in doubt (or seen as lacking), all the easier to direct death wishes at them. When a tiny min — José Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

Mankind is immortalin the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of naturebut by virtue of man's subjectio — Rose A. Zimbardo

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort. — Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtf — Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction

Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeles — Janet Malcolm

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like — Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also. — Harold Bloom, Eugene O'Neill

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic. — Roman Payne

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronical — John Sutherland

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