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Letter "L" » literature
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, civilization, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, dumber, dumbest, history of science, literature, speculation, speculations, standstill
«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.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, engines, erected, erecting, erects, history of science, lighthouse, lighthouses, literature, sea change, speculation, speculations, standstill, The Lighthouse, The Sea, windows
«A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
a people, historical, literature, no show, reconstruction, Show People, textbook, textbooks, The Writings, Writings
«He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.»
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
Anything Else, architecture, literature, pictures, portrait
«Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
art critic, critics, failed, literature
«Every man's memory is his private literature.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Memory
| Keywords:
literature, private
«Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Literature
| Keywords:
Beautiful Music, develop, interesting, literature, throbbing, throbs, treasures
«I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
artists, heroes, hooked, hooking, hook up, hook up with, literature, The Game, writers
«Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.»
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