Closer/literature

Famous quotes containing the words closer and/or literature:

“Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:24.

“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)