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Tag: life, literature

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

life, literature

Tadeusz Konwicki

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

life, literature

Life isn’t simple. Literature shouldn’t be either.

life, literature

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Do you realize that all great literature — “Moby Dick,” “Huckleberry Finn,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “The Red Badge of Courage,” “The Iliad and The Odyssey,” “Crime and Punishment,” the Bible, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” — are all about what a bummer it is to be a …human being?

life, literature

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

life, literature

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

life, literature

Tadeusz Konwicki

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

life, literature

Life isn’t simple. Literature shouldn’t be either.

life, literature

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Do you realize that all great literature — “Moby Dick,” “Huckleberry Finn,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “The Red Badge of Courage,” “The Iliad and The Odyssey,” “Crime and Punishment,” the Bible, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” — are all about what a bummer it is to be a …human being?

life, literature

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

life, literature