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"Literature is the best way to overcome death"

-Ilan Stavans

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Samuel Lover: "When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can."

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"But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself." C.S lewis

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Literature is important as it gives the reader a wider outlook on living, and a further understanding of other people around us.

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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can

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Language is not the measure of our lives, not to say it doesn't hold immense value but it is a way to share our lives rather than the measure of them. The way you affect the world and the happiness you hold whilst alive is how life is measured literature allows others to find meaning and inspiration in their own lives.

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This will be relating to english because to become a stronger english student we will have to take on criticism about our work and improve.

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"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart." (Salman Rushdie)

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"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary" Boris Pasternak

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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I thought this quote was pretty inspirational. It relates to lit English to me because the course will probably be relatively hard so I chose it knowing that I could fail if I want to succeed.

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"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them," - George Orwell

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“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” (Nobel lecture, 1993)