Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

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

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

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

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?

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

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.