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Literature Quotes

"I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer"

"I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once"

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"

"Science fiction pretends to look into the future, but it's really looking at a reflection of our current society."

"The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death"

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."

"Poetry is an act of peace"

"Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote"

"Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live"

"Literature is news that stays news."

"A writer survives on his weaknesses and gets killed by his strengths."

"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."

"We read to know we are not alone."

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

"I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language."

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