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Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.


James Wood


#fiction #james-wood #literature #life

What, what am I to do with all of this life?


Gwendolyn Brooks


#life

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.


George Eliot


#nature #weather #life

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.


Sophocles


#literature #sophocles #life

To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying but in the end it is static a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling and sometimes even dangerous but in the end it is a journey and a story. Who really wants to stay at home and be right when you can don your armor spring up on your steed and go forth to explore the world True you might get lost along get stranded in a swamp have a scare at the edge of a cliff thieves might steal your gold brigands might imprison you in a cave sorcerers might turn you into a toad but what of what To fuck up is to find adventure: it is in the spirit that this book is written.


Kathryn Schulz


#error #life #life

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125


Daniel Pennac


#literature #reading #life

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature


Anita Brookner


#literature #ruined #life

Life happened because I turned the pages.


Alberto Manguel


#literature #reading #words #life

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you


Jeremy Aldana


#life #present #life

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life


Martin Amis


#literature #on-fiction #life






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