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Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
“Mi čitamo knjige zato da bismo čitanjem proširili granice svog ličnog iskustva. Ako nam knjiga u tom pogledu ne daje apsolutno ništa,… — D. I. Pisarev Copy Share Image
Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I was asked: You write some intimate scenes in your stories on You Me & Stories but they are not explicit. Why… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and… — Terry Eagleton 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
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. You won't mind, will you? Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary… — Michael Muhney Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
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