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The difference between journalism and literature is that journalis

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

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Literature is the echo of life. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), paraphrase

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The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. – Samual McChord Crothers

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