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> [Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elaine-equi/sometimes-you-get-lit-students-that-know-a-lot-about-the-canon-but/)

[Elaine Equi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elaine-equi/)

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> [You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandra-adornetto/you-know-you-can-always-pick-the-lit-students-he-continued-grinning/)

[Alexandra Adornetto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandra-adornetto/)

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> [“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgard/we-were-nobodies-two-young-lit-students-chatting-away-in-a-rickety/)

[Karl Ove Knausgård](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgard/)

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