Studying Literature Quotes

• La literatura añade a la realidad, no se limita a describirla. Enriquece las competencias necesarias que la vida cotidiana exige y proporciona; y en este sentido, riega los desiertos en que ya se han convertido nuestras vidas.

  C. S. Lewis

  Respeto, Libro, Curación

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• Los libros son los portadores de la civilización. Sin libros, la historia es muda, la literatura muda, la ciencia lisiada, el pensamiento y la especulación paralizados.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• La literatura siempre se anticipa a la vida. No la copia, sino que la amolda a su propósito.

  Oscar Wilde

  Purpose, Literature, Mould

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• Los libros son los portadores de la civilización. Sin libros, la historia es muda.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Libro, Literatura Historia, Civilización

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• La literatura añade a la realidad, no se limita a describirla.

  C. S. Lewis

  Realidad, Doe, Añadir

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• Sin libros, la historia es muda, la literatura muda, la ciencia lisiada.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Civilization, Literature History

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Drinking, Learning, Hygiene

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• The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Believe, Soul, Literature

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Emotional, Skills, Choices

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Había pasado por todo el sistema educativo británico estudiando literatura, culminando con tres años de lectura de inglés en Oxford, ¡y nunca me habían hablado de algo tan básico como la importancia del punto de vista en la ficción!

  Philip Pullman

  Reading, Years, Oxford

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• He pasado mi tiempo libre estudiando literatura popular entre las jóvenes de este planeta. Siempre hay que estudiar el campo de batalla". Sean lo miró. "¿Y?" "Te sugiero que te rindas ahora. Según mis investigaciones, en un triángulo amoroso entre vampiro y hombre lobo, el vampiro siempre se queda con la chica.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Giving Up, Vampire

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• My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.

  Garth Greenwell

  College, Years, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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