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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Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book.... The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.”
—Groucho Marx (1895–1977)
“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)