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Literature Quotes

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."

"Every man's memory is his private literature."

"Economic conditions, cultural avarice, and the exploitation of memory colonized the text before it was even set down"

"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."

"This is a work of fiction, but believe me, none of this is invented."

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."

"They [comic books] are not a genre… they are a source of great stories and colorful characters"

"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf"

"I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"My only love sprung from my only hate "

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat"

"Poetry, in essence, is the celebration of being."

"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."

"The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"

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