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Sep 11, 2023 · The most powerful, beautiful and heart-wrenching literary quotes that we hope you'll want to use and refer to or just contemplatively stare at again and again. We've included words spun from the minds of some of the best authors of all time, including Toni Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Stephen King.
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Sep 21, 2023 · Get inspired by the world’s most recognized book quotes – and make sure to read or re-read the books they come from. Internet users share hundreds of thousands of quotes every day. Not too many people know that many of these great thoughts come from books.
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat” – Ralph Ellison. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is...
Sep 21, 2020 · There’s plenty you can do to impact the world we’re living in, and if you’re still not feeling it, here are some powerful literary quotes to get you in the right frame of mind. I'm not going to lie to you: it's rough out there and getting rougher.
- The Mill on The Floss
- Mansfield Park
- Crime and Punishment
- The Scarlet Letter
- Journey to The Center of The Earth
- Frankenstein
- OH, The Places You'll Go!
- Man and Superman
- On The Road
- Atlas Shrugged
“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."
“They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”
“It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”
“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
Sep 8, 2014 · 10 Great Quotes for International Literacy Day. Today is International Literacy Day! What better time, then, to celebrate some of the wisest, wittiest, pithiest, silliest, and most profound things that writers have ever said about literature and reading?
Aside from the fact that there are no Shakespeare quotes included, there’s a nice broad range of fiction quotes from the English language, many of which you may have heard in film, television, or theatre adaptations.
