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Literature is the question minus the answer. - Roland Barthes

Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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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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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

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. – Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842

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