Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.