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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #literature
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.) ↗
Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts. ↗
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. ↗
#england #homophobia #homosexuality #lgbt-literature #maurice-novel
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. ↗
#literature #reading #words #acting
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on. ↗
Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise. ↗
