Alexander Jannaeus - in Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
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“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)