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Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever. -- Ezra Taft Benson
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. -- Frederick Sanger
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature. -- Chang-Rae Lee
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. -- Sandra Cisneros
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. -- Richard Flanagan
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. -- Philip Roth
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. -- Wendell Phillips

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