#literature

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#storytelling #literature

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

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My master's degree was in English literature. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

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All literature is gossip. ↗

— Truman Capote

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...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love. ↗

— Daphne Kalotay

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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. ↗

— John Cheever

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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