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Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. ↗


— Milan Kundera


#intelligence

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies… Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it. ↗


— Enrique Vila-Matas


#intelligence #reading #talent #words #intelligence

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. ↗


— Allen Lane


#publishers #intelligence

[It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was less intelligent, talented, capable, and interesting than the world's least interesting human being who happened to have a penis. ↗


— Francine Prose


#essay #feminisim #intelligence

My Holy Book is human intelligence; I have no other Holy Book at all! ↗


— Mehmet Murat ildan


#intelligence

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! ↗


— Christopher Marlowe


#envy #faustus #jealousy #marlowe #seven-deadly-sins

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place. ↗


— Shannon L. Alder


#book-critics #jealousy #jealousy

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ↗


— Malcolm X


#reading #life

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. ↗


— Stephen King


#life

Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. ↗


— John Green


#library #reading #life






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