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Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And all to one loved folly sacrifice.

Alexander Pope An Essay on...
Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And all to one loved folly sacrifice.

... the literary manifestation of the mind - body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the "serious" and the "entertaining" - the belief that if a literary work is "serious," it...

Ayn Rand The Night of...
... the literary manifestation of the mind - body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the "serious" and the "entertaining" - the belief that if a literary work is "serious," it must bore people to death; and if it is "entertaining," it must not communicate anything of importance. {Which means that "the good" has to be painful, and that pleasure has to be mindlessly low - grade.}

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Literature is pure artifice, but great literature manages to disguise it and mediocre literature betrays it.

Mario Vargas Llosa Letters to a...
Literature is pure artifice, but great literature manages to disguise it and mediocre literature betrays it.

This backward construction was an authorial slight of hand that Poe understood well. Pondering what he called tales of ratiocination - his own name for detective stories - Poe later remarked, People...

Paul Collins Edgar Allan Poe:...
This backward construction was an authorial slight of hand that Poe understood well. Pondering what he called tales of ratiocination - his own name for detective stories - Poe later remarked, People think them more ingenious than they are - on account of their method and air of method. In the 'Murders in the Rue Morgue,' for instance, where is the ingenuity of unravelling a web which you yourself {the author} have woven? The reader is made to confound the ingenuity of the suppositious Dupin with that of the writer of the story.

There are rumors about the depraved and perverted practices of the pulchritudinous protestant puritan plutocratic penis - people priesthood, of shadowy bacchanalian polyamorous practices. ... I...

Charles Stross The Rapture of...
There are rumors about the depraved and perverted practices of the pulchritudinous protestant puritan plutocratic penis - people priesthood, of shadowy bacchanalian polyamorous practices. ... I suspect, to be blunt, someone was blackmailing him.

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He

Ursula K. Le Guin The...
He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He

Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you...

J. D. Salinger Cliffs Notes on...
Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them... You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring.

because white novelists are not white novelists but simply "novelists," and white characters are not white characters but simply "human," and criticism of both is not partial or personal but a matter...

Zadie Smith Changing My...
because white novelists are not white novelists but simply "novelists," and white characters are not white characters but simply "human," and criticism of both is not partial or personal but a matter of aesthetics. Such critics will always sound like the neutral universal, and the black women who have championed Their Eyes Were Watching God in the past, and the one doing so now, will seem like black women talking about a black book.

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

A book can't be a half fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant.

David Mitchell The Bone Clocks
A book can't be a half fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant.
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