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"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
Author:     Georg C. Lichtenberg Category:     Literature

"For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books."
Author:     Herman Melville Category:     Literature

"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
Author:     John Morley Category:     Literature

"Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature"
Author:     John Moschitta Category:     Literature

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
Author:     George Orwell Category:     Literature

"The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms."
Author:     Marques De Pombal Category:     Literature

"Literature is news that stays news."
Author:     Ezra Pound Category:     Literature

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
Author:     Jules Renard Category:     Literature

"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart."
Author:     Salman Rushdie Category:     Literature

"Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other."
Author:     Ernesto Sabato Category:     Literature


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