Literature Quotes
Books change lives. Authors and readers reflect on the power of the written word.
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"She had loved novels more than life itself."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The written word often deceives us more than speech."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"She read of great loves and lived a small life"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The book was an outrage. It was also a masterpiece."Winston Smith
"The best world is built on bad literature suppressed"Mustapha Mond
"The proper study of mankind is books"John the Savage
"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."Winston Smith
"The only thing worth writing about now is an unprintable subject."Winston Smith
"The most remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is quite good"Pierre Bezukhov
"The proper study of mankind is books"John the Savage
"Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy, plays the strong jet of my maturity."John the Savage
"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."Winston Smith
"I read Shakespeare, and now the World State feels hollow."John the Savage
"I had rather be a swineherd than I would be Orestes."John the Savage
"The best books are treasuries of the best words."Winston Smith
"The proper study of mankind is books."John the Savage
"Brave New World"John the Savage
"The best books are treasuries of the dead."Winston Smith
"I think that novels about great wars and other historically important events can be written only by people who have absolutely no imagination."Kurt Vonnegut
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born."Holden Caulfield
"What really knocks me out is a book that makes you want to telephone the author."Holden Caulfield
"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."Holden Caulfield
"The best books are treasuries of the best that men have thought."Winston Smith
"The proper study of mankind is books"John the Savage
"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts, which record the thoughts of the great and the good."Winston Smith
"In the future, there will be no novels like our great predecessors."Syme
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours."Holden Caulfield
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours."Holden Caulfield
"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."Holden Caulfield
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend."Holden Caulfield
