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Literature Quotes

"Goethe said things that comfort the soul and the mind can bear"

"The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight"

"The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning."

"It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men), that wise men only should be able to commend him."

"It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times"

"What is better than to sit at ease and listen to the best that the poets sing?"

"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules or fits certain definitions."

"What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards?"

"Books are special, books are my friends. They are always there for me."

"You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."

"A writer’s life is an experiment in biography"

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