Quotes About Literary Canon

#1. The Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

Noam Chomsky

#2. Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

Tyler Cowen

#3. I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

Charles Lloyd

#4. In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.

Robert Waterman McChesney

#5. What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Adolf Hitler

#6. Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked.

Robert Low

#7. In summing up Lawrence's earlier novels and in anticipating the later, Sons and Lovers is of central importance to the whole Lawrence canon because it contains the psychological basis of much of the later doctrine.

John E. Stoll

#8. Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#9. Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

Henri Poincare

#10. You know, you're a great barbecuetionist.

Adam Brody

#11. That's why even the simplest, most basic Japanese sentence cannot be translated into English!

Tae Kim