Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

The offender never pardons.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature.  It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.