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When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: After America American American Literature Back Bosnia Came Choice Civil Civil War Enrolled Go Had Here Literature Master No Choice Planning Program Published Stay Studied War Writer I Came

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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

~Anatole Broyard

Topics: American American Literature Back Forever Leave Literature Lives Looking Looking Back Love Nostalgia Our Paradoxes Wait Writers

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It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: American American Literature Exaggerate Hard Hemingway His Influence Larger Literature Lives Our Our Lives Over Still Would

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I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

~Azar Nafisi

Topics: American American Literature Degree English Finally Got Iran Islamic Literature Republic Returned Stayed Years

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Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Alienated American American Literature Hero Huckleberry Finn Literature Seemed Since

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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.

~Carolyn See

Topics: American American Literature Become California Hope Literature Mainstream Part Process See Someday

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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

~Christopher Dawson

Topics: Always American American Literature Among Aspired Been Content Continent Just Just One Literature Many Never New New World Only Western Western World World

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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

~Dashiell Hammett

Topics: American American Literature Anyone Bad Been Influence Literature Think I Can

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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

~David Eagleman

Topics: American American Literature British Literature Rice Undergraduate University

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I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

~David Eddings

Topics: American American Literature Back Bad By The Time Completed Contribution Day Enormous Get Hour Literature Made Morning Rises Slightly Sun Time Up Which Work

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