Quotes about literature
literature newspapers
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. Alphonse de Lamartine
literature hostile paid
For hostile word let hostile word be paid. Aeschylus
literature forget speak
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
literature fortune rejoice
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
literature born easier
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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 castles fixed
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. Bram Stoker
literature needs humans
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. Edwidge Danticat
literature today weakness
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. Edward Young
literature lifetime watergate
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure. Bob Woodward
literature information suggestions
Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
literature operations evidence
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
literature trouble deals
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
literature places-to-go needs
There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. Edward Hirsch
literature occupation merit
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions. David Hume
literature very-happy walkers
I am very, very happy for Alice Walker. Audre Lorde
literature belief instantaneous
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
literature universal-love kinky
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
literature why-not sexuality
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
literature gods-will
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. Edwin Louis Cole
literature gone cry
Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
literature rewards reactions
You don't reward reaction; you reward results.
literature bears yoke
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
literature moral bases
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
literature commodity truth-is
Truth is life's most precious commodity.
literature substitutes fund
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
literature committed
You are committed to what you confess.
literature limits boundaries
Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
literature matter
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical. Barbet Schroeder
literature moments obscure
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one, Arthur Conan Doyle