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| Isaac Asimov Quote |
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. -- Isaac Asimov
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| Salman Rushdie Quote |
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. -- Salman Rushdie
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| Elie Wiesel Quote |
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. -- Elie Wiesel
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| Ellen Glasgow Quote |
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. -- Ellen Glasgow
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| Clive Staples Lewis Quote |
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Barbara Tuchman Quote |
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. -- Barbara Tuchman
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| B. A. Billingsly Quote |
A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. -- B. A. Billingsly
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| T. S. Eliot Quote |
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. -- T. S. Eliot
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| Cyril Connolly Quote |
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once. -- Cyril Connolly
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| Eric Anderson Quote |
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. -- Eric Anderson
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