Literature
See also: Wikiquote: List of misquotations- The character Sherlock Holmes never used the phrase: "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. However, he does say, "my dear Watson" then shortly (to Watson) "Elementary" during a conversation, and similar phrases at other times. The first use of the phrase was in the 1929 film "The Return of Sherlock Holmes."
- Frankenstein was not the name of the monster in the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, rather it was the surname of the monster's creator Victor Frankenstein. The monster is instead called Frankenstein's monster. Also in the novel Frankenstein was a medical student, not a doctor as he is often portrayed.
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“A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time—this one, for instance—as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)