When you re-read a classic you do not see in the
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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Great literature is simply language charged with m
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
What is wonderful about great literature is that
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
The test of real literature is that it will bear
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The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
The duty of literature is to note what counts, an
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
A classic is something that everybody wants to ha
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The difference between journalism and literature
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The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more v
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I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
What a sense of security in an old book which tim
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
Literature is news that stays news.
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