Definition of Literary

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Literary

Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.

Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.

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Literary Quotations

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle

Literary Translations

literary in Dutch is letterkundig, litterair, literair
literary in German is literarisch, literarische, literarisch
literary in Hungarian is irodalmi
literary in Italian is letterario
literary in Latin is philologus
literary in Spanish is literario

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