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Wallace Stevens : How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? # Literature

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Adlai E Stevenson : " Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. " # Literature

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Robert Gordis : " it will never be outmoded as long as the systole and diastole of human life survives, and men fluctuate between progress and reaction, growth and decline, hope and illusion. " # Literature

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Ernest Hemingway : " Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. " # Literature

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Charles Dickens : " It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. " # Literature

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Salman Rushdie : " Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. " # Literature

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Eric Anderson : " It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. " # Literature

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Thomas Mann : " Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization! " # Literature

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James Branch Cabell : " Surely the cosmic irony that loves men's dullness because it alone can preserve them from madness, and retorts upon the cosmic terrors with a jest, is higher than gallantry and more enduring. It arrives at tolerance for all human shortcomings; it embraces high and low in its sympathies; it achieves urbanity as a final goal. It is the stuff of which great literature is made. And Mr. Cabell is creating great literature. A self-reliant intellectual, rich in the spoils of all literatures, one of the great masters of English prose, the supreme comic spirit thus far granted us, he stands apart from the throng of lesser American novelists, as Mark Twain stood apart, individual and incomparable. " # Literature

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Matthew Arnold : " Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. " # Literature

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George Orwell : " To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. " # Literature

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Wallace Stevens: " The summer night is like a perfection of thought." # Perfection

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Wallace Stevens: " Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." # Truth # Perseverance # Death and Dying

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Wallace Stevens: " The imagination is man's power over nature." # Imagination # Power # Nature

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Wallace Stevens: " If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism." # Egotism # Laughter # Sex

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Wallace Stevens: " Post-religious man, as Stevens saw him, still had a deep need for the kind of exaltation of the body and spirit which goes under different names in different religions — Christians call it grace, that is, the feeling or knowledge that the workings of God are revealed to the individual, thus lifting him or her up to a state of ecstatic consciousness. ... For the romantics in general such moments of ecstasis in the midst of nature are experienced by the solitary imagination, and the bonds of society are cast away as unimportant. Stevens once said that the romantic is a falsification, and perhaps the reason for the comment was his feeling that such moments of ecstatic relation in the midst of nature had to be given a social and eventually political meaning, rather than remaining in the arena of the spirit. Stevens poetry then offers a pastoral romantic ecstasis that become the occasions for searching out the relations between the individual, his or her community and the natural world." # Senses # Love # Poetry and Poets

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Wallace Stevens: " Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces." # Fiction # Books - Reading # Music

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Wallace Stevens: " To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind." # Imagination # Love # Metaphysics

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Wallace Stevens: " Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art." # Intolerance # Religion # Arts and Artists

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Wallace Stevens: " How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?" # Literature

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Wallace Stevens: " As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible." # Literature # Life and Living # Age and Aging

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