#liter

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. ↗

— David Eagleman

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I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ↗

— Voltaire

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Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. ↗

— Terri Windling

#around #been #form #label #latin

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

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I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#literature #reading #literature

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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