#liter

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#literary #man #music #puts #them

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#boat #great #hope #literal #man

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#greek #illiterate #like #looking #man

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! ↗

— Brian Lumley

#could #critic #literary #loves #only

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#facts #literature #science

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

Transformation literally means going beyond your form. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#form #going #literally #means #transformation

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#beaten #down #going #horrible #i