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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. ↗

— Ma Jian

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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature. ↗

— Phillip M. Hoose

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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

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I studied literature design and fashion design. ↗

— Danielle Steel

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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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