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“School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.”

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Book:One Word
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“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.”

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Book:The Wanderess
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“The artistic creation of the poet, painter, photographer, and writer is a reflection of the artist’s inner world. The agenda of consciousness that spurs all forms of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but to portray its inward significance to the creator. A great poem, painting, photograph, and written composition fully express what the creator feels, in the deepest sense, about the distinctively depicted image that captured their imagination.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls
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“In my native Denmark, literature seems to be a kind of all people’s Church - or its substitute. We all treat our Danish literature like a church. This is our true form of state religion, our contribution to the world’s variety, diversity and cultural wealth, our vivid and palpable contribution to the entire treasury box of the world and mankind. That's what the Danish literature is. For some of our more down-to-earth neighbours, the literature and literary exercises are merely means of communication, relaxation, amusement, but certainly, nothing that might be considered sacred. Not for us, the Danes. We didn’t happen to write “Hamlet”, but we all the more so revere Karen Blixen, Nikolai Grundtvig, Georg Brandes, Tove Ditlevsen. No wonder: the Vikings whom we also revere as our founding forefathers, were the first Danish writers. The first Danish writings are the Viking inscriptions in the Runic alphabet on raised stones – called “runestones” - that are still quite visible in the Danish landscape.”

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Author:Della Swanholm
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“The breath you claim as yours, Once stirred the dust of stars. The blood that runs your course, Flowed through forgotten winds. The soil you walk, remembers you, Not as an owner, but as its child. You are just the turning page, Of a universal, waking dream.”

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Book:PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE: EXPLORING ONTOLOGY, AESTHETICS AND HERMENEUTICS
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“वह लड़का एक सादा पाठ था। उसमें बूंद भर भी चटक अक्षर नहीं थे। दबे और पुराने किस्म के वर्ण थे वहाँ। 'उखड़ चुके और ताजा उगे' के बीच की छपाई थी उधर। वह ऐसा सरल भी न था कि तुकबंदी की शक्ल में उसे याद किया जा सके। कठिन तो बिल्कुल भी नहीं कि किसी मायने पर आकर ठिठका जाए। उसे उलट कर पढ़ें या कि सुलट कर, अक्षरों का हिसाब एक बराबर ठीक ही बैठता था। उस पर मोड़ थे पर निशान ऐसे नहीं कि कोई अपनी हथेली की किसी रेखा का जुड़वा मान बैठे उन लकीरों को। वह तरख भी हो सकता था पर ऐसा नहीं कि उस पर कोई स्मृति छोड़ देने को किसी का मन ही ललक जाए। कभी-कभी वह नष्ट हुआ सा भी दिखता था। कभी इतना तुरंत जन्मा सा कि उसे डर लगता था कि कहीं कच्ची स्याही ही न लेपा जाए उससे।”

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Book:KHELA
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“Sumulat ako ng plano sa eroplanong papel. Pinalipad ko ito, pero bumagsak lang sa sahig. Pinulot ko ulit, pinalipad sa himpapawid. Alam kong babagsak lang sya sa sahig. Kaya hindi na masakit. Duon ko naisip na kahit ilang beses man syang bumagsak sa sahig. Nakalipad sya,kahit na sandali. Nag bigay ng kasiyahan sa aking mga mata. Sinabayan ng kaunting ngiti, sa aking labi. Napagod ako at nilukot ang eroplanong papel. Subalit ang plano ay nakalagay na sa pag-iisip. Ang tanging masasabi ko lang salamat Paginoon. Dahil binigyan ninyo kami ng papel sa napakagandang mundong ito. -Aron Micko”

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Author:Aron Micko H.B
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“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”

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Author:Roman Payne
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