Literature Quotes

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

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

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

My soul is in the sky.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

We are minor in everything but our passions.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

Literature is the history of the soul.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

I never really separated painting and literature.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.