#liter

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#before #chance #done #duke #feet

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#also #become #becomes #corps #get

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

Sometimes he spend hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature." From "The Adventure of the German Student ↗

— Washington Irving

#literature #reading #food

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#humour #illiteracy #pose

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. ↗

— James Tobin

#anyone #casually #curious #father #gentle

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#born #cincinnati #family #general #i

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#competitions #designs #feature #green #increasingly

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#kinds #literacy #marry #things #you

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#fiction #flourish #genre #genres #literary