Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound to dominate one literature better than another. But I do see it as one of the ways forward for the future. I think it is a very important approach.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

There are literally a thousand works with the title Malcolm X in them. There are over 350 films and over 320 web-based educational resources with the title Malcolm X, yet the vast majority of them are based on secondary literatures, that is, not on primary source material.

There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.