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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?