#literature

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

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

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

#energy #film #gone #honestly #i

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

#animate #instruct #literature #object

All good Literature rests primarily on insight. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#insight #literature #primarily #rests

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

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. ↗

— David Lodge

#children #having #having children #life #literature

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#emotions #happen #i #just #like

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#claimed #dead #followers #had #himself