[L]iterature is a garden of weeds as well as flowers… – Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteen
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The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. – Anatole France
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
A relationship is lovely if youre happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But theres nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest. – Susannah York
Rock n Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. Thats what rock n roll should do – take you to a better place. – Meat Loaf