Literature Quotes
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.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
