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  • W. H. Auden Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Octavio Paz Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Lionel Trilling Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Salman Rushdie Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Britt Ekland Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Bob Fosse Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.
    Bob Fosse
    American dancer and choreographer (1927 - 1987)
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  • Ben Vereen Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Butler Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Tama Janowitz Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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  • Carine Roitfeld Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Alice Walker Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
    (2018)
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bill Parcells Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Brad Bird Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • John Steinbeck Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Robert Hayden Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Og Mandino Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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