Quotes about literature
literature population projects
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. Gertrude Stein
literature purpose news
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. Herman Melville
literature one-thing
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
literature edges ragged
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
literature honest trustworthy
Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know. Henry David Thoreau
literature way yards
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
literature philosopher should
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
literature life-is
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
literature good-nature bottom
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
literature confession
Faith never makes a confession.
literature annoying can-do
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
literature treats esteem
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
literature oracles calm
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
literature subjects
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. Ernest Hemingway
literature architecture baroque-music
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
literature novelists losing
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. Flannery O'Connor
literature young be-young
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
literature remember english-literature
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. Henry Louis Gates
literature streets
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. Henry Miller
literature prison-life crime
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
literature parting
In every parting there is an image of death. George Eliot
literature too-much injury
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.
literature assuming reasonable
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later. Gore Vidal
literature genius warhol
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
literature feels asks
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. James Branch Cabell
literature sophistry wit
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. Jacques Barzun
literature may energy
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time. J. R. R. Tolkien
literature way folly
It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good. Isaac Disraeli
literature heroism hunger
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism Francois de La Rochefoucauld
literature yeah university
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. Jim Harrison
literature publishing concepts
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
literature france harvard
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
literature stuff reason
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. Jerry Pournelle