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 "Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

 "Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."

 "“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….. Yes, sir, a clown. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off… I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of ’em oughta be ridin’ a broomstick.”
  Harper Lee

 A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation
  Henry Louis Mencken

 A great speech is literature.
  Peggy Noonan

 A wicked book cannot repent

 All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
  Ernest Hemingway

 As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value
  Marcus Aurelius

 Bad literature is a form of treason.
  Joseph Brodsky

 Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

 Books are humanity in print.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

 Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

 Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

 Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

 Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories
  Mark Twain


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