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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa Literature 662
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves Arthur Miller Literature 171
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. Maya Angelou Literature 162
The Postmodernists tyranny wears people down by boredom and semiliterate prose. Christopher Hitchens Literature 127
Literature is like phosphorus it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. Roland Barthes Literature 109
O villain villain smiling damned villain Hamlet I v 106 William Shakespeare Literature 106
I am conscious of a soulsense that lifts me above the narrow cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten my world lies upward the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine Helen Keller Literature 103
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literature 101
...but dont tell me Im not sensitive to beauty. Thats my Achilles heel and dont you forget it. To me everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and Im limp by God... J.D. Salinger Literature 98
The ambition of much of todays literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. Charles Simic Literature 95
Comedy aims at representing men as worse Tragedy as better than in actual life. Aristotle Literature 94
O perigo de penetrar apaixonadamente no mundo dos livros o de nos tornarmos ns prprios no aglomerado de pequenos excertos literrios. Eduardo Halfon Literature 94
Books are well written or badly written. That is all. Oscar Wilde Literature 89
this is the weakness of most edifying or propaganda literature. There is no diversity...You cannot in fact give God His due without giving the devil his due also. Dorothy L. Sayers Literature 89
The poet however uses these two crude primitive archaic forms of thought simile and metaphor in the most uninhibited way because his job is not to describe nature but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind. Northrop Frye Literature 88
When there is noise and crowds there is trouble When everything is silent and perfect There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air. Dejan Stojanovic Literature 87
Kill me or you are a murderer. Franz Kafka Literature 87
That cloak of love you were wearinghes torn it to shreds undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds Antonia Michaelis Literature 87
Funny way to spend your life though studying another chaps versifying. A.S. Byatt Literature 86
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft a certain freemargin or even vagueness ignorance credulity helps your enjoyment of these things. Walt Whitman Literature 86
One of the convenient things about literature is that despite copyrights ... a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer. Anne Fadiman Literature 84
If you want to know a country read its writers. Aminatta Forna Literature 84
Our literature is in great shape. James Welch Literature 83
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down there are still so many stories to be told. Colum McCann Literature 83
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. G.K. Chesterton Literature 83
Big writers become a kind of shared climate. Adam Gopnik Literature 83
Fear doesnt shut you down it wakes you up. Ive seen it. Its fascinating. Veronica Roth Literature 83
She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude the starlike impersonality of figures to the confusion agitation and vagueness of the finest prose. Virginia Woolf Literature 81
There is nothing political about American literature. Laura Bush Literature 80
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington Literature 79
As George Russell defined a literary movement Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other. Ross Wetzsteon Literature 78
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. Weve got too many dexterous drudges as it is. Jan Neruda Literature 78
But you have read Madame Bovary Id never heard of her books. No. David Mitchell Literature 77
I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people dont seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956 but of no human beings. Vladimir Nabokov 1964 Vladimir Nabokov Literature 76
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepiatoned and bristling with subtext. Leslie What Literature 76
Actually I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise. Murong Xuecun Literature 76
If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He wouldve thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets. Dejan Stojanovic Literature 75
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries slave of prejudice slave of religious fanaticism slave of barbarity and inhumanity. Saadat Hasan Manto Literature 72
I think that I had better go Holmes. Not a bit doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. Arthur Conan Doyle Literature 71
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. Sophocles Literature 69
Shes got feet like boats whiskers like an American and her undies are filthy. Marcel Proust Literature 68
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didnt behave that way you would never do anything. John Irving Literature 67
The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in. James Galvin Literature 66
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness possibility complexity and difficulty. Lionel Trilling Literature 65
Wriggling around two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriends nether region I wrestled a fifty free. David Louden Literature 63
Wherever I go I run into myself. Dejan Stojanovic Literature 62
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... Vladimir Nabokov Literature 62
It is the custom on the stage in all good murderous melodramas to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky wellcured bacon. Charles Dickens Literature 62
He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love. Dejan Stojanovic Literature 58
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life that is the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged literature is freedom. Susan Sontag Literature 58

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