Ulm Railway Society - Literature

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“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
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