#liter

Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. ↗

— Rick Moody

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My wife is the host of 'Big Brother.' Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, 'Da da da, but first we do this.' So they mashed together her saying 'but first' a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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All good Literature rests primarily on insight. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more glorious than this one. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#dreams-inspirational #dreams-quotes #philosophy-literature #philosophy-of-life #beauty

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. ↗

— Ron Lewis

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Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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