Quotes about literature
literature biographies fiction
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. Rachel Carson
literature turns
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Julian Barnes
literature psychedelic natural
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. Stanislav Grof
literature care wardrobe
And that Michael Irvin would care more about his wardrobe than I would? Lisa Guerrero
literature possibility difficulty
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. Lionel Trilling
literature atrocities institutions
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point. Linda Chavez
literature terrorist behinds
The terrorists hide behind Allah.
literature prophet historian
The historian is a prophet looking backward. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
literature definitions would-be
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
literature prose
In true prose everything must be underlined.
literature fragments
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
literature feminine treated
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
literature politics ethics
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
literature spirit explosions
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
literature language excellent
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
literature want veils
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
literature helping destruction
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? Julio Cortazar
literature creation unusual
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
literature cost postmodernism
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow
literature affair
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. Karl Kraus
literature consciousness psychologist
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
literature want realizing
I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them. Kevin J. Anderson
literature complexes
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. Kevin Kelly
literature eavesdropping
Literature is eavesdropping. Ralph Waldo Emerson
literature done ill
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
literature debtors fiction
Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
literature biographies fables
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
literature hallmark american-literature
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. Tayari Jones
literature temperature truth-is
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. Roy Blount, Jr.
literature greater
Literature is greater than any of us, dammit. Romain Gary
literature sadistic cruelty
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human. Storm Jameson
literature planets access
Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet. Stephen Fry
literature degrees masters
My master's degree was in English literature. Sylvia Browne