Tell Me A Story

Tell me a story that isn't gory
tell me a story that isn't fake
tell me a story where you made a mistake
tell me a story where the cows come home
tell me a story I want to know
tell me a story where the princess finds herself
not a prince who is more like an elf.
Tell me a story that I can laugh out loud
tell me a story where storm makes lighting clouds.
For in the end we only have our stories to tell
what make them funny, give them hell.

poem by Christina Sunrise
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Tell Me A Story

Tell me a story that isn't gory
tell me a story that isn't fake
tell me a story where you made a mistake
tell me a story where the cows come home
tell me a story I want to know
tell me a story where the princess finds herself
not a prince who is more like an elf.
Tell me a story that I can laugh out loud
tell me a story where storm makes lighting clouds.
For in the end we only have our stories to tell
what make them funny, give them hell.

poem by Suzae Chevalier
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The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

quote by Kathy Acker
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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

quote by Jonathan Coe
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My literary success meant nothing to me.

quote by Taylor Caldwell
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In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

quote by Andrzej Wajda
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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

quote by Jeanette Winterson
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A great speech is literature.

quote by Peggy Noonan
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Speranza's Son

His poems and plays are literary gems his quotes popular today
A genius and a great poet with words he had a way
Incarcerated in Reading Jail he lived at a time
When for a man to love another man was looked on as a crime.

His mother was a great poet Speranza was her name
In the Dublin literary circles of her time she was one who knew fame
She gave to the World Oscar Wilde the truly enlightened one
What woman would not feel proud to give birth to such a son.

His father the antiquarian and gifted writer became famed far and wide
And as an expert on human diseases his worth could not be denied
But nowadays he is better known as Oscar's father the wit and literary great
A legend for the ages and one to celebrate.

The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Jail
and Lady Windermere's Fan
From the pen of Speranza's son the renowned literary man
And though he died as a pauper in Paris from Dublin far away
Through his humorous quotes and insightful writings his legend lives today.

poem by Francis Duggan
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Literature I Loved

LITERATURE I LOVED

Literature I loved-
Reading gave new lives and new worlds-
Experience enriched beyond
What I could have ever have imagined alone-

The pleasure and joy of it
The discovery the adventure-

Literature I loved
And Life greater because of it.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

quote by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

quote by Andrew Greeley
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

quote by Milan Kundera
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I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

quote by George Stephen
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When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

quote by Francis Ford Coppola
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

quote by Aldous Huxley
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I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

quote by Jim Harrison
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

quote by Thomas Bulfinch
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

quote by Nathalie Sarraute
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