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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its essence, because the contracts that have come about over time for communication cannot be rescinded so easily.

Simin Behbahani

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

Simone de Beauvoir

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

Simone de Beauvoir

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

Sjon

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

Sjon

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Stephan Jenkins