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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. ↗

— Ma Jian

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With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

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What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. ↗

— Keira Knightley

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Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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