Monday, May 31, 2010

Emotion and Intellect

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual- when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

-Isaac Bashevis Singer

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