Literature Quotes

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

A loafer always has the correct time.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes