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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained QUOTES

The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained QUOTES

1 " Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

2 " literature continues to satisfy a spiritual or psychological need, and open readers’ minds to the world and its extraordinary variety. "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

3 " Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul." Joyce Carol Oates "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

4 " Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Don Quixote "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

5 " Tell me, Senor Don Alvaro,’ said Don Quixote, ‘am I at all like that Don Quixote you talk of? "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

6 " Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em." Twelfth Night "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

7 " Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do." Jane Eyre "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

8 " All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players." As "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

9 " Time, which diminishes and erodes all things, increases and augments generous deeds … "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

10 " I’d like to turn the deepest of yellows, / Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower, / Into her lap..." Les Amours de Cassandre "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

11 " He puts their eyes in a bag and carries them to the crescent moon to feed his own children..." “The Sandman "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

12 " The white man is very clever … He has put a knife on things that held us together and we have fallen apart." Things Fall Apart "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

13 " Epics are narrative poems that recount the story of a hero who represents a particular culture. "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

14 " Oh I am burning! I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free." Wuthering Heights "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

15 " A flash of lightning illuminated the object ... it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life." Frankenstein "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

16 " For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness … all mortal greatness is but disease." Moby-Dick "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

17 " The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." Oedipus "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

18 " Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate. "

― James Canton , The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained