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• If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

  Seán Ó Faoláin

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• I am most grateful to the CLF Common wealth Literary Fund for providing the funds to give these lectures in Australian literature, but unfortunately they have neglected to provide any literature.

  Michael Innes

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• All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

  Ernest Hemingway

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• Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

  Erin McCarthy

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• Literature is what’s left standing after the storm.

  Mark Rude

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• Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

  Jane Yolen

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• Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.

  Quentin R. Bufogle

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• Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

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• I think literature reveals more about us than history does.

  Susan Meissner

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• What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books.

  A.S. Byatt

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• Literature…is lonely and waited for, brilliant and pure and frightened, a marriage of birds, a conversation of the blind.

  Lorrie Moore

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• Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

  Colum McCann

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• Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

  Colleen Hoover

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• Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

  Nadeem Aslam

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• Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap’s versifying.

  A.S. Byatt

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• What people value in their books and thus what they count as literature really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

  Brent Weeks

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• All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it’s any good, it has a healing quality – a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

  Katherine Paterson

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• Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

  Colum McCann

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• It is, of course, traditional in children’s literature to get rid of the parents.

  Anthony Horowitz

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• This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not alone.

  Arlaina Tibensky

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