Literature Quotes - Page 141
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 31
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.42, University of Texas Press
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
"Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.
"Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.
John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.100, Hamilton Books
'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2
"Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".
John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”