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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. ↗

— Will Eisner

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I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#actor #age #already #anyone #day

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#know #literature #little #much #our

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#been #city #first #i #literature

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#causes #coronation #effects #infinite #literature

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#am #amazed #dirt #everyday #fingernails

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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