“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Quote of the Day – Fiction
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Quote of the Day – Boring People
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
— OSCAR WILDE
Quote of the Day
“At the door of every contented, happy man somebody should stand with a little hammer, constantly tapping, to remind him that unhappy people exist, that however happy he may be, sooner or later life will show him its claws, some calamity will befall — illness, poverty, loss — and nobody will hear or see, just as he doesn’t hear or see others now.”
— Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries
Quote of the Day – Writing
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining;
— Anton Chekhov
show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Quote of the Day – Reading
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty – and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”
— Doris Lessing
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