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“Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness”

Reading Literature Loneliness Connection

Book:How to Read and Why

Source: How to Read and Why

“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”

Poetry Reading Oscar Wilde Canon

Book:The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

Reading Literature Books Solitude Words

Author:Harold Bloom

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

Reading Books Books Reading

Author:Harold Bloom

“How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.”

Reading Harry Potter J K Rowling

Author:Harold Bloom

“We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.”

Reading Literature Relationships Loss Books Words

Book:How to Read and Why

Source: How to Read and Why

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