#liter

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

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I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally. ↗

— Megan Fox

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To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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