"Comics are a gateway into literature."

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Source : "Comic Books: Good For Kids?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

Francoise Mouly

#Literature Quotes #Gateways Quotes

“I could never dream of being cool.”
“I hate sentiment when it's inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an exhibition drives you to tears you need to see a psychiatrist immediately. That's what I think.”
“Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
“My paintings are wiser than I am.”
“The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.”
“If Home is where the heart is then may your Home be blessed . . .”
“Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.”
“There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself ...”

Source : Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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