"To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human."

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Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

— Barbara Johnson