Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

You have to make it happen.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and the depth of their meanings, the characters movements towards high convictions whether in the beginning or in the middle, and the ending must serves ideals and values and accomplishes victory to the human beings.

A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

A boy trying out a man's language.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge, habits and attitudes. Each reader reads a different book. Each reader imagines a different story. A few years ago, for instance, a friend of my mother's sent me a copy of a test on Rite of Passage that she had given her students. The first question read: "True or False? The theme of Rite of Passage is..." I can't tell you what the presumed themed was, but I can tell you that I didn't recognize it. Beads of sweat leaped out of my forehead. After two more questions, I had to put the test aside. I didn't know the "right" answers.

. . . Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

Added to the crazy legends was a collection of essays called: “Gazpacho for My Mother: Tales of Tritesza and Sorrow,” in which Fergus declared and adored the hair-raising fits of anguish, sadness and self-absorption he experienced as a Hispanic person of mostly non-Hispanic origin.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess of words, not events. The surface of the texts, the sound of the words, point to themselves as manufactured, as illusion. The decadents attempted to create texts that announced themselves as artifice.

A drop of darkness above me hung,within me ruined Rome,within me demolished Rome, where those lands my dream would well travel, before that I want to die without blame,so let me see ten thousand moons to Dream.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.