#ture

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. ↗

— George Carlin

#children-s-literature #literature

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. ↗

— Jonathan Ames

#literature #reading #literature

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#women #literature

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#literature #literature

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#literature

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book. ↗

— Al Pacino

#literature #reading #literature

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#social-structure #society #economy

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known. ↗

— Mary Downing Hahn

#mystery #decisions

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#literature #shakespeare #literature