I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.” — John Sayles Copy Share Image
“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I’m not interested in… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other” — Lance Conrad Copy Share Image
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
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