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“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree”
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“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living”
Cyril Connolly quotes (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)
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“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
E. M. Forster quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1879-1970)
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes (Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author of fiction and travel books, 1850-1894)
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“Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman quotes (American popular historian and author, 1912-1989)
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“Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.”
A. E. Housman quotes (English Scholar and Poet, 1859-1936)
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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
Ezra Pound quotes (American Editor, Poet, Translator and Critic, 1885-1972)
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“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”
Ezra Pound quotes (American Editor, Poet, Translator and Critic, 1885-1972)
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”
John Cheever quotes
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