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Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
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Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
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![“[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/52f/gordon-s-wood-13199_ambition_john-adams-s-vividly-descriptive-prose-i_1856135.jpg)
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