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“Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.”

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Author:Anthony Holden

“Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.”

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Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

“Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.”

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Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.”

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Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.”

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Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays

“From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the sonorities of phrase and summits of thought; and the other who digs and scratches for truth all he can, who is as interested in the little facts as the big ones, who would like to make you feel materially the things he reproduces.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”

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Book:The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.”

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Author:James Thurber

“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”

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Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

“I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.”

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Author:Michael Chabon

“My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him.”

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Author:Margaret Cho