Literature Quotes

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Poet

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.”

Literature Identity Poetry

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Mary McCarthy

Author

“Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.”

Literature Liberty Freedom

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Hermann Hesse

Novelist, Poet

“Only the ideas that we really live have any value.”

Ideas Literature

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

Order Literature

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”

Men Literature Bait

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Erma Bombeck

Humorist, Writer

“How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?”

Literature Goes On

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Bertolt Brecht

Playwright, Poet

“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.”

Teacher Crazy

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”

Men Running Literature

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