4,370 Quotes About Literature
- Author Robbie Coburn
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My love of literature has always sustained me; more than alcohol, drugs, psychiatry and medication ever have or will.
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- Author Jeanette Winterson
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You can pick up a book but a book can throw you across the room. A book can move you from a comfortable armchair to a rocky place where the sea is. A book can separate you from your husband, your wife, your children, all that you are. It can heal you out of a lifetime of pain. Books are kinetic, and like all huge forces, need to be handled with care.
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- Author Turgut Ulucan
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Çare yüklüğün ardında duruyor, onu bekliyormuş gibi tuttu yüklüğü top gibi indirdi yere. Elinin ayrı bir aklı varmış da o düşünürken elleri kendi aklının dediğini yapıyormuş gibi gördü ki yüklüğün altındaki sandıkta pılı pırtı arıyor. Bir iki parça öte beri aldıktan sonra kapattı sandığı, üstüne döşekleri özensiz atı atıverdi. O zaman gördü ki gönlü gitmeye çoktan razı. Yeter ki gitmeler yalnız olmasın.
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- Author Turgut Ulucan
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Ölmesini istediklerim oldu kimi zaman ama ölmemelerinin bile beni sevindirdiği günler gördüm. Benim doğumumla anamın ölümü yan yana olduğundan olacak doğuma üzülmek, ölüme sevinmek gelir kimi zaman içimden. Belki de cahillikten.
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- Author Nikita Deshpande
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In college, they taught us that all great works of literature begin in the middle of things. People are long born, hearts have already been broken and families destroyed, yet, the real trouble is still to unfold. And that is why I will never write a great work of literature. I have way too many middles to choose from.
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- Author Robbie Coburn
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Books, both read and written, are my way of understanding, communicating with and navigating the horrific world around me.
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- Author Roger Shattuck
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There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.
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- Author Paul Kalanithi
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And so it was literature that brought me back to life.
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- Author Franz Kafka
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As I lie in bed I assume the shape of a big beetle, a stag beetle or a cockchafer, I think.
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