Lit Quotes
Every sense of the word 'lit.'
These quotes lean on every meaning of 'lit' at once, literal candlelight in old coal mines, modern slang for something Amazing, and English Lit class as a place stories actually came alive.
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My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
Always Quotes
History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
Amazing Quotes
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.
There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.
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One quote contrasts a dull history class with English Lit down the hall, where there were finally stories worth craving. For more wordplay, see our Artist quotes.
