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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
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Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
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A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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I originally went to Edinburgh for Latin, which I love and the literature is incredible, but then I suddenly realised that languages… — Lady Amelia Windsor Copy Share Image
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
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