Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

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Topic

Good writing Power of literature Writing

Author

George Orwell

Source

Why I Write

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Journalist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Orwell, George. "Why I Write." Gongrel, No. 4, Summer 1946.

Current Citation

Orwell, George. "Why I Write." Selected Essays, edited by Stefan Collini. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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Topic
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Winston Churchill
Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Sinews of Peace." 5 Mar. 1946, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, USA. Speech.

Current Citation

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Another quote about Power of literature

Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Power of literature

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William Hazlitt
Language
English
Time
1817 1810s 19th century
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Citation

Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

Another quote from 1946

The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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Topic
Awe

Author

Nikos Kazantzakis
Source
Zorba the Greek
Medium
Novel
Language
Greek
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 24.