"Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it."

-- Barbara Johnson

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“The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.”
“Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.”
“[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.”
“I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.”

Source : "Exclusive: Joseph Morgan Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and IMMORTALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.
“Donald Trump is obviously the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history.”
“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”
“The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.”
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

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