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“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.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“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.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“Literature is the question minus the answer.”

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Author:Roland Barthes

“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.”

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Book:Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

Source: Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

“Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.”

“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed”

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Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.”

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Author:Nicole Krauss

“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”

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Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature