Art and Literature

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tiny.ag/nsr67v4t · ★★☆☆ Fair (944 ratings) · submitted 1997

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

tiny.ag/2drhezti · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Anton Chekhov, (advice to a novice playwright), in Art and Literature

tiny.ag/wqaxitgv · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", in Art and Literature

tiny.ag/inomue9p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1073 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

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