"Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability."

-- John Perry

#Motivational Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.”
“Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.”
“The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.”
“My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.”
“At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.”
“It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.”

Source : Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.13, Zondervan
“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”

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