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“The walls are the publishers of the poor.”
Eduardo Galeano Quotes |
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“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
Andre Gide Quotes |
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“In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.”
Aldous Huxley Quotes |
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“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“Literature is my utopia.”
Helen Keller Quotes |
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“The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.”
Stephen Leacock Quotes |
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“Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.”
David Lodge Quotes |
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“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”
Don Marquis Quotes |
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“In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.”
Andre Maurois Quotes |
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“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
Ezra Pound Quotes |
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“Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.”
Joseph Roux Quotes |
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“The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quotes |
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“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”
Stendhal Quotes |
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“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Jessamyn West Quotes |
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“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
Thornton Wilder Quotes |
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“In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.”
Gao Xingjian Quotes |
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“English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.”
Marilyn Butler Quotes |
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“In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.”
Northrop Frye Quotes |
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“Perish those who said our good things before we did.”
Donatus Quotes |
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“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
John Cotton Dana Quotes |
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“Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.”
Alexandre Dumas Fils Quotes |
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“You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.”
Gail Godwin Quotes |
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“Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”
Montesquieu Quotes |
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