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• Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  Lionel Trilling

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• It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

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• The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

  Margaret Atwood

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• 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

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  C. S. Lewis

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• The great danger in modern literature is that it would have us accept as a description of reality, what is actually an interpretation of it.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Modern literature spurns moralizing in favor of demoralizing.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

  Jo Godwin

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• There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

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• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  Irving Langmuir

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• All that is literature seeks to communicate power: all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

  Thomas De Quincey

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• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

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• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you’re trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

  David Petraeus

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• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

  Jim Rohn

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• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

  David Eagleman

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• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  Boris Spassky

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• Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

  Thornton Wilder

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• There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

  Fredrik Bajer

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• I studied literature design and fashion design.

  Danielle Steel

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