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• Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

  Jules Renard

  Money, Writing, Ridiculous

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• Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

  Heinrich Heine

  Morgues, Related

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.123

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• There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

  Austin O'Malley

  Passing Away, Deeds, Form

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• When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

  George Saintsbury

  Writing, People, Natural

  George Saintsbury (1950). “A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers”

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• [Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

  Julian Barnes

  Beautiful, Lying, Facts

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.

  Ivan Klíma

  Book, Light, Hearing

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• If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.

  Jo Walton

  Mean, Perspective, Robots

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• For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

  Herman Melville

  Fear, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.328, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Years, Done

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2012

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• But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Horse, War, Book

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, Curiosities of Literature, Pamphlets, 1922.

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Truth, Philosophy

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Friendship, Writing, Family And Friends

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1965). “The house of the seven gables”

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• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Men, Discovery

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

  Lytton Strachey

  Common, French Literature

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

  James Allen

  Change, Ignorance, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Heart, Mirrors, Sight

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• If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

  Andrew Denton

  Art, Would Be, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Travel, Moving, Book

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, September, 2003.

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• There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

  Laurence J. Peter

  Humility, Two, Kind

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• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Morning, Writing, Up Early

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• The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

  Anatole France

  Light, Giving, Preference

  Anatole France (1924). “On life & letters”

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• Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

  Helen Rowland

  Time, Women, Half

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Knowing, Mockingbird, Folks

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