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If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and i — Shia LaBeouf
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chu — D. H. Lawrence
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or indepe — Mao Zedong
I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsa — Apollonius of Tyana
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to — Irvine Welsh
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on e — Jhumpa Lahiri
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. — Seamus Heaney
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
The crown of literature is poetry. — W. Somerset Maugham
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and mak — Rita Dove
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetr — Khaled Hosseini
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, — George Ripley
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. — Virginia Woolf
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the — Lionel Trilling