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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. ↗

— Camilo Jose Cela

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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

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Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time. ↗

— Mike Myers

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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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Truth is most beautiful undraped. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature. ↗

— Richard Owen

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In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul ↗

— Albert Camus

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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

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