Literary Merit Quotes
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That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read (Literary Merit Quotes)
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author (Literary Merit Quotes)