"Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met."

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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.

— Terry Eagleton