Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

The future belongs to crowds.

The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

The government ought to help out, because the average citizen can't go out and be doing reviews of the scientific literature. And focus on the processes that have low side effects and good long-term outcomes. Right now you're going to find those in the psychosocial area, in the therapy area, in the empirically supported treatments such as ACT or cognitive behavior therapy, behavior therapy. And go there first rather than going to the pill bottle as if it's going to be the end of your journey. Very often it's only going to help, and even only to a minor degree, and more is going to be needed.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of who a character is and you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot if you're not reading it.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.