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Literature Quotes

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality"

"It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end."

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

"Don't make much ado about nothing."

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure"

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird"

"The only advice that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions."

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading"

"Classic: a book which people praise and don't read."

"I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited"

"From hell's heart I stab at thee for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee"

"Books are the perfect entertainment"

"Fool, said my muse to me, look in thy heart and write"

"Some stories are true that never happened."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

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