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Here is a delightful and instructive compendium of the most memorable utterances of the world's most quotable writers. The Oxford Book of Literary Quotations covers all aspects of the literary life, from careful assessments of the relative value of literature (\"The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight,\" Gabriel Garcia Marquez) to the modest wish for an attentive audience (\"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole LIFE to reading my works,\" James Joyce) to appreciative remarks about their fellow writers (\"Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers,\" Ernest Hemingway), to reflections on the thrill of publishing (\"Being published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honour is almost greater than the pleasure,\" G.M. Young), and much, much more.Celebrating over 3,000 years of writing, the dictionary's 4,000 quotations are arranged thematically, allowing the reader to dip easily into a chosen topic. Within each topic, the entries are arranged chronologically by author. So, for the section of Earning a Living, we begin with Horace, writing in the first century

Author
PETER KEMP, edited by Peter Kemp
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9780198602606
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Humanities

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