Allusion has been made to [Proust's] contempt for the literature that "describes," for the realists and naturalists worshipping th
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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the n
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over- influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English
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The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics
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It is curious to speculate why pornography is considered especially likely to stimulate its readers into performing the activities
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Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as an
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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new quest
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American manners have evolved in a climate in many ways very different from those of the civilization to which most Americans owe
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Except for the beast fables, which are anciently derived from the world's multi-racial heritage, American Negro humor is rooted in
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