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Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature. -- Jose Saramago
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant. -- Ismail Kadare
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. -- Daniel Tammet
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. -- Lytton Strachey
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature. -- Whitley Strieber
With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. -- Shawn Johnson
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other. -- Feist
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal. -- Theresa Breslin
Literature endures like the universal spirit,And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men. -- Li Shang-yin
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature. -- Audre Lorde
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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