"Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity."

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Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Valley of Bones: Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.221, University of Chicago Press

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“A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.”
“A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.”

Source : Elie Abel (1968). “The missile crisis”, Bantam Books
“I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.”
“The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.”

Source : Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”, p.67
“Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.”
“Who designed this world we live in?”

Source : Song: Hell To Heaven, Album: Answers to Nothing
“I have discipline, I look after my voice.”

Source : "Julio Iglesias On His Champion Son Enrique, What Dolly Parton Taught Him, And The Enduring Passion". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 9, 2012.
“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”

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