Quotes about literature
literature chess enormous
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. Boris Spassky
literature facts events
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
literature life-is hell
Without literature, life is hell. Charles Bukowski
literature belief study
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare. Aubrey Beardsley
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
literature marxist socialist
When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature. Adolf Hitler
literature recognition reason
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly. Amy Lowell
literature
I'm not going to be lectured to. Ann Coulter
literature stories language
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is. Aleksandar Hemon
literature fiction-and-nonfiction bosnians
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
literature fundamentals significant
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
literature joyful revelations
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. Alberto Manguel
literature absence
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead
literature pseudo strange
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists? Alfred Kazin
literature three beastly
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
literature literary-devices devices
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
literature scripts pieces
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process. Abel Ferrara
literature mourn
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead. Aeschylus
literature guile
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
literature eternity
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. Agatha Christie
literature seems
Very few of us are what we seem.
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature suspects
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. Jane Austen
literature dresses solicitude
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
literature opinion mansfield-park
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
literature world disease
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. Jared Diamond
literature science terrible
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science Samuel Butler
literature
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. Carl Sandburg
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
literature wonder puzzled
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
literature guidance enough
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.