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Literature Quotes

"Where philosophy is a matter of words and of ideas, poetry is a matter of sounds and of experiences"

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?"

"Books were my pass to personal freedom."

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return"

"One best book is equal to a hundred good friends, but one good friend is equal to a library."

"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter"

"I like good strong words that mean something."

"You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."

"Books and harlots have their own glow"

"It is easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

"Fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively"

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"When you read a novel, your own imagery is formed"

"Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change"

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales"

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