Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:
“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)