#liter

Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#friendship

I want to be a creature that’s half bee, half the letter B. That way I can pollinate the world with my literacy. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#letter-b #literacy #world #funny

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. ↗

— Paul de Man

#betrays #both #error #exists #literature

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#literary-criticism #humor

Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#lgbt-literature #life

You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#change #day #earn #every #every day

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. ↗

— Charles Simic

#literary-theory #literature #imagination

La politique au milieu des intérêts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert. ↗

— Stendhal

#politics #imagination

إن الأدب يؤدي إلي تغيير إنساني يجعل الإنسان أكثر رقيا وأكثر رحابة ويعمل علي زيادة معرفة النفس البشرية، كما يجعل الإنسان يفهم الآخرين قبل الحكم عليهم ↗

— علاء الأسواني

#inspirational #literature #inspirational

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#inspiring #literacy #women #writing #inspirational