#literature

Gossip is more popular than literature. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

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Literature is analysis after the event. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#deceiving #does #effect #executed #insincere

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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All good Literature rests primarily on insight. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more glorious than this one. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#dreams-inspirational #dreams-quotes #philosophy-literature #philosophy-of-life #beauty

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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