Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:
“The purifying, healing influence of literature, the dissipating of passions by knowledge and the written word, literature as the path to understanding, forgiveness and love, the redeeming might of the word, the literary spirit as the noblest manifestation of the spirit of man, the writer as perfected type, as saint.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)