#liter

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#anyone #books #ever #heard #i

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#beginning #cell #could #effect #exactly

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. ↗

— Erin Duffy

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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

#almost #become #boast #boasts #claim

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#corners #distribute #forums #go #groups

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. ↗

— Karen Black

#illiteracy #out #people #rampant

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#art #earth #even #greater #literature

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#already #begun #certain #dream #dreamed