“Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”
Woody Allen
“It's a progressive education school. We don't use textbooks we use literature. We encourage children to engage in reading from an early age. The way we approach that is to let the children pick out their own (books).”
Michele Pearson
“Move with the move, move the move, be the move and look back only if it moves you to move. ~Lana Radovic”
Lana Radovic
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read”
Oscar Wilde
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
“Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale.”
David C. McCullough
“History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.”
