Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

The world remains ever the same.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end of the 20th century that we didn't have at the beginning, at that time of the Lost Generation of rich white boys, is a mixture. We're now getting gay writers of color, let's say, and women of color being published. This is unprecedented.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produce?' Let us, then, consider literature as a productive science.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

The writer works in a lonely way.

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.