Orr (Catch-22) - Literary Significance & Criticism

Famous quotes containing the words literary, significance and/or criticism:

“The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new haut monde in letters and making up the public’s mind.”
—Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)

“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)