Literature Quotes

Books change lives. Authors and readers reflect on the power of the written word.

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"Your books will crumble to ash and ice."
The Night King
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"The best stories are the ones you live, not the ones you read."
Tormund Giantsbane
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"The greatest literature reflects the human condition in all its complexity."
Oberyn Martell
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"Literature reflects the lies we tell ourselves."
Lannister
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"Literature preserves what men wish to remember."
Davos Seaworth
D
"Literature speaks across the ages."
Davos Seaworth
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"Literature speaks of heroes and honor. I am the antithesis of both."
Ramsay Bolton
R
"Literature romanticizes evil. I am its proof."
Ramsay Bolton
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"I am the end of all stories, the last chapter written."
The Night King
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"Literature will be rewritten to praise us."
Dalek
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"All literature becomes propaganda for the Daleks."
Dalek
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of those who came before."
Jorah Mormont
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"Literature teaches us how to live."
River Song
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"The living write their stories in sand."
The Night King
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"Literature preserves the human experience across time and allows us to learn from others."
Dax
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"Literature is a conversation across time with voices we can never meet in person."
Dax
R
"Literature cannot teach you how to survive."
Ramsay Bolton
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages for those who will listen."
Jorah Mormont
J
"Literature connects us across the vast gulfs of time and space."
Jorah Mormont
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
Bran Stark
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages."
Captain Janeway
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"Literature satisfies only those too weak for real power."
Voldemort
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"Literature allows us to experience lives we could never live."
Dax
D
"Literature is a mirror to the human soul."
Dax
D
"There is poetry in the lives of common people, if one knows how to see it."
Davos Seaworth
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"Books have taught me that others have walked this lonely path."
Jorah Mormont
J
"The written word preserves what memory cannot hold."
Jorah Mormont
R
"Literature is the whimper of the powerless."
Ramsay Bolton
D
"All literature will be rewritten to glorify Daleks."
Dalek
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"Literature serves only to glorify weakness and sentiment."
Voldemort