Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
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William Stafford
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.
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Clarice Lispector
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change as the poet said, windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 Nov. 1980, pp. 16-32]
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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