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> [We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-vargas-llosa/we-were-trained-as-writers-with-the-idea-that-literature-is-something/)

[Mario Vargas Llosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-vargas-llosa/)

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> [We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zakaria-tamer/we-are-deceiving-ourselves-if-we-believe-that-a-literary-work-written/)

[Zakaria Tamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zakaria-tamer/)

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> [Science fiction is the very literature of change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederik-pohl/science-fiction-is-the-very-literature-of-change/)

[Frederik Pohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederik-pohl/)

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> [“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/there-is-nothing-sacred-about-literature-it-is-damned-from-one-end-to/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

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> [Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-shippey/science-fiction-is-hard-to-define-because-it-is-the-literature-of/)

[Tom Shippey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-shippey/)

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> [What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/what-literature-can-and-should-do-is-change-the-people-who-teach-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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