"The existence of good bad literature—the fact..." - Quote by George Orwell
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
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“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
“Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.”
“I cast my heart into my rhymes,That you, in the dim coming times,May know how my heart went with themAfter the red-rose-bordered hem.”
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“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
“People who read are people who dream.”
“Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”