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Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
— Idries Shah
We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.
— J.C. Villamere
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
— John Lahr
Language is the key to the heart of people.
— Ahmed Deedat
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
— Daniel Tammet
Literature has become merely a tool for culture studies.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
— M.H. Abrams
Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.
— Richard Brookhiser
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[ ... ].
— Simone De Beauvoir
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?
— Elif Shafak
Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.
— Paul C. Nagel
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
— Roger Scruton
People are talking high of Thiruvalluvar. But in practice they do not respect his teachings. They act against him and disregard him.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
— M.H. Abrams
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.
— Sven Birkerts
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
— David Strathairn
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
— Robert Duvall
Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.
— Semen Frank
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
— Kevin Kwan
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
— George Washington
Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
— Cynthia Ozick