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Literature Quotes

"A short story is a different thing altogether"

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."

"I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books"

"Novels are a marathon, while screenplays are a sprint"

"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. The type of epopees written in the Soviet Union, where they were agents of the Party, meant nothing to me."

"A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel"

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."

"Visit many good books, but live in the Bible."

"Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us."

"Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them"

"O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!"

"Understand that poetry is not meant to be understood"

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. "

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