Quotes about literature
literature throat
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. Friedrich Durrenmatt
literature doe mourn
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
literature coincidence worst
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
literature truth-is delusion
Truth is always a delusion.
literature world facts
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
literature majority doe
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. Friedrich Schiller
literature century creatures
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
literature converting opposition
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
literature goodness natural
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
literature patient wonderful
I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful. Nigella Lawson
literature taught easier
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. Mortimer Adler
literature mess
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it. Philip Roth
literature speech great-speech
A great speech is literature. Peggy Noonan
literature moderns speak
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Lord Chesterfield
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 shirts
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. Peter Bichsel
literature impossible
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. Piers Anthony
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 genre be-good
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. Vanna Bonta
literature hallmark american-literature
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. Tayari Jones
literature
It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory. Tom Baker
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 cost postmodernism
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow
literature degrees masters
My master's degree was in English literature. Sylvia Browne
literature begets
Literature usually begets literature. Susan Sontag
literature makers myth
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
literature muse modern
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
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