Joseph Brodsky Literature Quotations
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- All Literature Quotes
- Mason Cooley
- Henry David Thoreau
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- E M Forster
- Gertrude Stein
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- D H Lawrence
- Edwin Louis Cole
- Honore De Balzac
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- Aeschylus
- Bryant H Mcgill
- Franz Kafka
- George Eliot
- Jessica Savitch
- H L Mencken
- Lord Byron
- Charles Caleb Colton
- John Ruskin
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Organization Quotes
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.
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Responsibility Quotes
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most focused form of the demands on the evolution of the species. It imposes a certain responsibility, moral, ethical and esthetic responsibility, and the species simply doesn't want to oblige.