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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. -- Adam Johnson
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines. -- Libba Bray
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters. -- Deborah Harkness
I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death. -- Anthony Marra
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. -- Karen DeCrow
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death. -- Anne Fortier
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. -- Terry Pratchett
Literature is the best way to overcome death. -- Ilan Stavans
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. -- Seneca the Younger
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. -- Tom Clancy
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura -- Seneca the Younger
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow. -- Jules Renard
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death. -- Janet Burroway
In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes. -- Dan Simmons
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