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“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”

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Author:Anatole France

“We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.”

“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”

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Author:George Orwell

“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”

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Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.”

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Author:James Joyce

“And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.”

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Author:Virgil

“The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer