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The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom. — Subhan Zein

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. — Mark Twain

Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. — Margaret Atwood

Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ... — Amy Lowell

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

The worth of a book is infinite. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. — Louis Menand

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. — Carlos Fuentes

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — H.L. Mencken

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. — C.S. Lewis

Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams. — Jack Miles

Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown — Holly Black

Walking on water is easy if you know where to step. — Peter Tieryas

Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain. — Rabih Alameddine

My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you'll remember; literature that matters. — M.G. Crisci

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn. — Thomas Hardy

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin. — Mary Karr

There is no born lover,
There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back. — Steen Langstrup

God is busy and has no time for you. — Dejan Stojanovic

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well. — Patricia Lockwood

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The world is a navy in an empty ocean. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me — Miguel El Portugues

Remarks are not literature. — Gertrude Stein

Half the time, in this life, you wouldn't know where you are nor when. There are moments of unpleasant liveliness. Tamp that the fuck down is best. — Kevin Barry

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news. — George Bernard Shaw

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. — Becky Watson

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature? — Rick Yancey

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. — Barbara Kingsolver

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable. — Kate Zambreno

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. — Armand Assante

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other. — Jean Rhys

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass

Literature, of course, is not a contest. — Lorrie Moore

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures. — Alice Hoffman

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another. — Gerald Weaver

It is no easy task to be good. — Aristotle.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get. — John Hurt

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Isaac D'Israeli

The passion to teach, to share deeply
experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature. — Vera B. Williams

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bad literature is a form of treason. — Joseph Brodsky

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. — Dejan Stojanovic

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen

Smell is a word, perfume is literature. — Jean-Claude Ellena

Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here. — Suzette Mayr

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired. — Melanie Benjamin

There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality ... — George Bernard Shaw

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.' — John Fusco

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton

The bible is literature, not dogma. — George Santayana

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. — David Augsburger

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night — Harper Lee

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. — Sherman Alexie

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important. — Nadeem Aslam

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. — Tabitha King

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye

...for most men are unaware that what is in the power of magicians to accomplish, that the heart can also accomplish by dint of love and bravery. — Joseph Bedier

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. — Darin Strauss

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. — Dejan Stojanovic

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry