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Literature Quotes

"To read is to let someone else work for you, suffer for you, and think for you."

"Words are all we have."

"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words "

"It is the tale, not he who tells it"

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."

"God keep me from ever completing anything This whole book is but a draught nay but the draught of a draught "

"To sorrow I bade good morrow"

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence"

"Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling"

"But writing is the act of trawling the shadows to find the heart shaped glare"

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid"

"A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book"

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