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“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.”

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A. S. Byatt is a celebrated British novelist, recognized for her intricate narratives and literary style. Born on August 24, 1936, she has made substantial contributions to literature with her distinctive voice and storytelling. more

“During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.”

Years Said I Can Faces Courses Names Behinds Heard Months Cold Terrible One Day Standing Ears Blue Prison Lips Terror Spokes Affected Seventeen Numbness Queues Leningrad

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

Ends Might Duty Destruction Dare Frightened Have Faith Menace Accusation Dungeons False Accusation

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.”

Knows Heart Whole Joy Highest

Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight. Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.”

Heart Done Song Voice Dark White Sun Fields Tears My Heart Horror Singing Bird Sight Green Filled Delight Setting Settings Orchard Green Fields

Author:Siegfried Sassoon

“I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.”

World Kind Soul Body Order Sin Vision Needed Despair Perfection Property Strive Depth Glad Lust Compare Imaginary Nausea

Author:Hermann Hesse

“A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place.”

Ifs Mind Two Eye Song Fall Grows Loses Sleep Successful Messages Okay Sight Wave Flesh Within You Listeners Heartbeat Lullaby Fall Into Place Cellular

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

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