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| Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ~ Ezra Pound |
| A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ~ Mark Twain |
| Literature is the question minus the answer. ~ Roland Barthes |
| Literature is news that stays news. ~ Ezra Pound, |
| When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~ Samuel Lover, |
| Every man’s memory is his private literature. ~ Aldous Huxley |
| What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. ~ E.M. Forster, |
| I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. ~ Richard Livingstone |
| What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~ James Russell Lowell |
| The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. ~ Anatole France |
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| When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ~ Clifton Fadiman |
| The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ~ Oscar Wilde, |
| The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. ~ Samual McChord Crothers |
| A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~ Italo Calvino, |