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Old 11-09-2014, 06:48 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Do any of these bring back memories?

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
~ Jean Cocteau

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
~ Oscar Wilde

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
~ Henry David Thoreau

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry.
~ Emily Dickinson

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'
~ Helen Exley

Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
~ Virginia Woolf

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
~ Maya Angelou

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed
~ Marina Tsvetaeva

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
~ Jessamyn West
Gee.... I just saw those when I was dismantling my Kobo Wifi to grab an image of the internal uSD card and looked through libnickel.so.1.0.0. And yes, they do bring back fond memories especially the Oscar Wilde and Mary Wortley Montagu quotes.
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