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It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. -- Henry David Thoreau
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell. -- Colum McCann
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. -- David Nicholls
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature. -- Jonathan Kozol
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but. -- Errol Morris
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. -- Julian Barnes
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. -- Lytton Strachey
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down. -- Shane Carruth
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value -- Marcus Aurelius
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. -- Richard Livingstone
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. -- Stephan Jenkins
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. -- Dale Spender
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value. -- Mark Twain
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I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness. -- John Hodgman

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