Literature
- Talcott Parsons 1970. The System of Modern Societies, New York
- Talcott Parsons 1977. Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory, New York
- Talcott Parsons 1978. Action Theory and the Human Condition, New York
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“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and given them an idea of something better. A better state of one’s feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one’s self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same.”
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