Quotes and sayings about tag  literature

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

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• Books

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

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• Life

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

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• Life

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

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• Books

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

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• Books

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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• Humor

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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• Books

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

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• Books

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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• Books

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

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• Books

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

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• Motivational

A good book is an event in my life.

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• Books

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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• Inspirational

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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• Humor

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

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• Books