Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

F.SCOTT FITZGERALD

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Here they are...

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KILL_NANCY

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it - Dorian Gray

Susah wei dorian, you and I can be friends

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing

Love you Atticus

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1. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

2. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

3. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

4. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

5. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”

6. “Things are never as bad as they seem.”

7. “You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.”

8. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

9. “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

10. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

11. “Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”

12. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

13. “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”

14. “With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”

15. “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it…Whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen.

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

Haruki Murakami

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Classic - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

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"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." – Roald Dah

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"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

"Terror made me cruel."
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
- The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
- A Room With A View, E.M. Forster

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
- Ulysses, James Joyce

"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."
- The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."
- London Fields, Martin Amis


“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”
- The Children of Men, P.D. James

"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."
- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

"She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her."
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
- Valis, Philip K. Dick

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."
- The Witches, Roald Dahl

"I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine."
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
- Stardust, Neil Gaiman

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”
- The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith

"Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing."
- The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
- Middlemarch, George Eliot

“You are your best thing."
- Beloved, Toni Morrison

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote

“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we’re safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”
- Snow Falling on Cedars, David Gutterson

"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."
- In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
- Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons), Stephen King

All from classics

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. —Kate DiCamillo

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Good Quote