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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
Truth
Art
You
Man
Be Original
Try
Will
Become
Before
Nine
Caring
Out
Tell
Has-Been
About
Ten
Having
Bothers
Simply
Without
How
Been
Times
Often
Whereas
Literature
Noticed
Who
Original
Even
Originality
Ever
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Alienation
Borders
Crossing
Poetry
Poets
Writers
Tension
Between
Beyond
Narratives
Always
Been
Exile
Encounters
Familiar
Beginnings
Wandering
Literature
Epic
Theme
Epic Poetry
Stranger
Novels
Based
Basic
Assimilation
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
Life
Daily
Respect
Reality
Become
Our
Adds
Our Lives
Simply
Does
Provides
Literature
Requires
Describe
Deserts
Lives
Daily Life
Competence
Necessary
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George Washington
Happiness
Knowledge
Science
Better
Country
Nothing
Every
Promotion
Surest
Than
Literature
Patronage
Which
Public
Your
Deserve
Basis
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art
Religion
Spiritual
Man
Live
Every
Complex
Morals
Devices
Man Lives
Ends
Literature
Which
Realm
Means
Internal
Mechanisms
Expressed
Lives
Techniques
Every Man
External
Two
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
Government
Science
Architecture
Agriculture
Painting
Civilization
Never
Advances
Come
Industry
Greatest
Whether
Literature
Centralized
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
Art
Saying
People
Words
Extraordinary
About
Something
Discovering
Ordinary
Literature
Ordinary People
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
Susan Vreeland
Art
Peace
Commitment
Compassion
Become
Understanding
Community
Civil
Cruel
Individuals
Without
Isolated
Domestic
Tragic
Human
Where
Literature
Forms
Turn
Then
Connection
Violence
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov
Man
Known
Passions
Literature
Sweetest
Butterflies
Two
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal
Life
Best
History
Culture
Law
My Life
Leader
Islam
Party
Best Part
Follow
Given
Lead
Part
Study
Polity
Literature
Careful
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum
Humanity
Significant
Most
Literature
Interesting
Expressions
The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
David Suzuki
Work
Health
Heart
Diabetes
Cancer
Problems
Healthy
Energy
Our
Ways
Stroke
Evolved
Tells
Risk
More
Through
Instead
Most
Exercise
Alzheimer
Reduce
Healthy Diet
Effective
Heart Disease
Disease
Diet
Move
Oil
Literature
Us
Bodies
Use
Many
Now
Medical
Muscles
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Work
Music
Man
Architecture
Every
Else
Pictures
Himself
Always
Anything
Anything Else
Whether
Literature
Portrait
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Freedom
Heart
Memory
Nation
Press
Intrusion
Merely
Force
Woe
Up
Short
Literature
Cut
Interference
Sealing
Whose
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens
Faith
Health
Religion
History
Healing
Care
First
Sense
Universe
Our
Philosophy
Cosmology
Attempt
Part
Also
Health Care
Making
Cultural
Intellectual
Texts
Human
Where
Literature
Believing
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Words
Word
Enormous
Changed
Way
Right Word
Could
Write
He
Idea
Pictures
Make
Him
Read
Learned
Difference
Order
Literature
Conveying
Choosing
Paint
European
Professor
Illustrated
Right
Image
University
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott
Knowledge
History
Mechanic
Lawyer
Possesses
Some
Architect
He
Mere
Mason
Venture
Call
Himself
Without
May
Literature
Working
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
Light
Hundred
Hundred Years
Bad
Had
Contact
Terms
Trade
Years
Very
Five
Africa
African
Literature
Justify
Produced
Body
Reason
European
Four
Last
Slave
Slavery
Presented
Need
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
Book
Mark
Mark Twain
One Book
Huckleberry
Huckleberry Finn
American
Modern
Literature
American Literature
Twain
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
Me
Book
Sweet
Embarrassment
Out
Talk
Without
Am
Friends
Gracious
Disenfranchised
Senses
Literature
Barrier
Utopia
Awkwardness
Here
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
Journalism
Between
Read
Difference
Literature
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art
Experience
Sole
Ourselves
Through
Substitute
Literature
Which
Lived
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov
Tired
Wife
Medicine
Other
Spend
Lawful
Mistress
Get
Literature
Medical
Night
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.
Chinua Achebe
Great
You
Yourself
People
Try
Situation
Once
Tell
See
Allow
Students
Great Thing
Identify
Make
Surface
Begin
Situations
Story
Literature
Might
Far
Far Away
Then
Us
Your
Even
Away
Thing
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
Life
Beautiful
Music
You
Yourself
People
World
Rich
See
Develop
Simply
Souls
Forget
Literature
Interest
Interesting
Interesting People
Things
Treasures
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
Life
Beautiful
Music
You
Yourself
People
World
Rich
See
Develop
Simply
Souls
Forget
Literature
Interest
Interesting
Interesting People
Things
Treasures
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