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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. -- Doris Lessing
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. -- Anne Fadiman
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end. -- James Altucher
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds. -- Felix Adler
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. -- Doris Lessing
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. -- Carl Clinton Van Doren
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. -- E. O. Wilson
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion. -- John Dewey
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment. -- Eyvind Kang
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. -- Rebecca West
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority. -- Storm Jameson
The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times. -- Aurel Stein

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