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• In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Play, Differences

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• From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Clean Underwear, Coffins, Firsts

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.51, Grove Press

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  Samuel Lover

  Men, Hygiene, Way

  'Handy Andy' (1842) ch. 36

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• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

  Octavio Paz

  Expression, History, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.172, Arcade Publishing

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• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  Walter Scott

  Law, History, Historical

  Guy Mannering ch. 37 (1815)

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• Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

  George Ade

  Hygiene, Should, Currents

  "Fables in Slang".

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• It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Trying, Letters

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press

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• The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Important, Way, Said

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• Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soil, Generations, Sap

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• You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Teacher, Teaching, Hunters

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• I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

  Langston Hughes

  Satisfied, Weary, I Can

  "The Weary Blues" l. 27 (1926)

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• I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

  Marcus Garvey

  Dream, Race, Leader

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• Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Son, Race

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thankful, Kindness, Attitude

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

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• Literature is my Utopia

  Helen Keller

  Book, Reading, Literacy

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Reading, Health

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Reading, Garbage Cans

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2016

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• There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, People, Musician

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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Happiness, Writing, Heart

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• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

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• How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Past, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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