#liter

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#experience

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

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There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

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