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
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
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
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot
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
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King
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
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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