“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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