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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #deliver #god #literature #literature-quotes

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#eagle #eagles #eyesight #literature #literature-quotes

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #end #endless #eternity #existence

Universe is the Sun watching its own self. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #philosophy #poetry #poetry-quotes

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#languages #literature #literature-quotes #masters #philosophy

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #escape #lie #lies #literature

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#days #deserved #go #half #i

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability. ↗

— Martin Amis

#don-quixote #literary-criticism #miguel-de-cervantes #literary-criticism

With heightened senses it remained motionless and looked through bulbous eyes. It could taste fear in the air. Pheromones. Sweat. Food was near, but more importantly, so was its new home. ↗

— Stephen Craig

#creature #horror #inside #food