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«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
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Literature
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blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, discrimination, mellow, mellows, perception, Personal Best, quicken, quickening, quickens, reader, sharpen, The Quickening
«A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.»
«Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Books,
Writers
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discern, instrument, optical, optical instrument, reader
«A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.»
Author: P. L. Travers
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Writers
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after all, book, half, learns, reader, The Other Half, writer
«A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three»
Author: Italian Proverb
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Books
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forbidden, prohibition, prohibitions, reader, rush, sale
«Amuse the reader at the same time that you instruct him»
«Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Books,
Mind,
Reading
| Keywords:
author, mind reading, reader, reads, The Author, the book
«A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.»
«Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.»
«'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.»
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