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2018-08-23 16:50
“In order to have an overall developed personality to cope with modern-day crisis, it becomes vital not only to study literature, but also see its relevance in economic, political and… Read More
2018-07-29 14:24
“Beyond acting as a form of meditation, reading helps build the neuro-networks that improve our lives immeasurably—including reducing sugar cravings. As mbg Collective member&nbs&hell…Read More
2018-07-28 11:52
Book readers enjoy longer, healthier lives. The results of a study
“suggest that the benefits of reading books include a longer life in which to read them.
“While most sed… Read More
2018-03-02 22:19
Literature is “obligated to join the oppressed in the trenches and become a partisan for truth, justice and the higher ideals […], such as tolerance, personal and collective fre… Read More
2018-02-23 18:25
“Imagination applied to the human condition is empathy. Good fiction is difficult without it, great fiction impossible. It’s a talent that’s in short supply today, when the… Read More
2017-05-11 10:09
“while it’s conventional that wisdom exists in literature, creative writing has always been seen as more rarefied or intimidating. It has been celebrated as personally palliative… Read More
2017-03-07 14:08
“What is the role of literature, or for that matter any form of poetry, art and music, in management education and practice? Is it an engagement in abstraction, an escape from the drud… Read More
2017-03-01 18:20
“A study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, The Reader and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and funded by the British Academy, has found that sha… Read More
2017-01-11 17:36
“Money obscures one’s relationship to work; it distances us from ourselves and the things we make. … Because the value of goods is dominated by the market, one’s lab… Read More
2016-12-09 17:54
“There are many plausible reasons that the use of million-dollar words would lead readers to believe that an author is smart. Intelligence and large vocabularies are positively correla… Read More
2016-11-11 16:33
“Nothing can defend us better against ignorance, prejudice, racism, nothing better than good literature. […] good books are the best defense that we have against prejudices, aga… Read More
2016-11-04 11:36
“Reading and writing are subversive acts by default. […] this activity develops in societies a critical spirit about the world as it is.
Why do you think that all dictatorshi… Read More
2016-11-01 21:22
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was “a major player in intellectual life during the Cold War — the closest thing that the U.S. government had to a Ministry of… Read More
2016-10-28 16:31
“Artists as a rule ever since they emerged from the shamans and healers of the old age have always been investigating the nature of the world, been the seekers of truth, and the philos… Read More
2016-08-24 17:08
“Art brings into play the subjective impressions and imagination of the artist. But these impressions and this imagination carry weight and endure, in the end, only in so far as they c… Read More
2016-06-17 11:42
Research shows “The more a child watched television or was exposed to television, even if it was playing in the background, the weaker their understanding of their parents’ menta… Read More
2016-04-09 16:56
“Raven locks, arched eyebrows, eyes like stars, rosy cheeks, sea-shell ears, pearly teeth, cherry lips, swan-like necks, lilly white hands, and a Grecia nose”…
If writers… Read More
2016-03-07 14:43
“The MFA isn’t about developing a unique style at all, but about learning how to sound like already published writers. It’s about gaining entrance to the club. Look closely… Read More
2016-03-02 16:11
“This one-year research study concluded that shared reading groups helped patients suffering from depression in terms of their social, mental, emotional and psychological well-being. T… Read More
2016-03-02 16:10
“What is this curse that makes us all so inert and cowed that we cannot pull ourselves together and deprive the generals of their grants? We are oafs, most of us, lazy and ignorant, an… Read More
2016-02-08 15:15
“When we talk about publishing these days, we have to talk about much more than book sales, even more than the written word and books themselves. We need to talk about all the things w… Read More
2016-02-08 15:12
The “earliest surviving record of espionage dates from the time of Pharaoh Rameses’ war with the Hittites and the battle of Kadesh. (c.1274 BC)…The Hittite king Muwatallis… Read More
2015-12-27 19:07
What is literature? — It Is the personal preference of a writer (or a reader) for the works of certain writers: his idea of what should be described for a larger circle of readers as w… Read More
2015-12-16 17:52
“Stories can be a way for humans to feel that we have control over the world. They allow people to see patterns where there is chaos, meaning where there is randomness. Humans are incl… Read More
2015-12-14 15:42
Glamour and glitz of literary festivals comes with a price, “And the most expensive item on the bill is the transformation of writers into performers, authors into salesmen. […]… Read More
2015-12-09 18:54
“Literature, whether prose or poetry, as a record, or history, not only of individual’s lives but also of collective’s lives ~ indeed of society’s life. For what purp… Read More
2015-11-11 17:50
Literature mirrors “the challenges of societal integrity, cultural sovereignty and the dilemma of self-awareness and self-confidence in us as a people.”
[…] “not onl… Read More
2015-11-02 16:16
“Reading is a crucial practice in contemporary life. Reading helps us to better ourselves by educating our minds, enriching our knowledge, and exposing us to new and diverse ideas and… Read More
2015-10-27 16:40
“Reading does many things: It expands and enriches the mind, clarifies the thought process. It stimulates the mind and provokes research thereby increasing productivity and well being… Read More
2015-10-26 14:55
“Spontaneity, freshness, courage and a thousand other advantages inherent to youth [are] conducive” to creativity. However, “maturity and experience — the w… Read More
2015-10-23 16:50
“Words matter. A society’s books and movies impact the world. Books, in particular were often internationally influential during the Cold War. …
The CIA funded the product… Read More
2015-10-12 18:29
Writers “can make an impact on the social and political life of the nation by using their reputations as thinkers and writers.” But, “When I look at the contemporary scene… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“I’m never going to live on the moon, I’m never going to be flying. I’m not going to be a dragon, and yet when I’m reading I explore those lives of other people… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“Some studies suggest that one of the reasons senior executives read is to provide relief from the solitude of being at the top. According to a quote attributed to C.S. Lewis: “W… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
…”what a work of art must do. And that is to tell the truth in a way that raises the intellectual, spiritual and emotional capabilities of their audiences. It need not be the li… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“There is a serious academic contention that one of the reasons that Russia produced so many brilliant writers during the nineteenth century was that the structure of government (under… Read More
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