Quotes about literature
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
literature weapons
My weapon is literature Chinua Achebe
literature easy teach
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
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 disease molecules
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'. Kurt Vonnegut
literature stories guilty
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. Bill O'Reilly
literature belief ifs
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature
I really came to literature through poetry. Cheryl Strayed
literature exciting supper
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
literature adultery sexuality
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. Charles Baudelaire
literature melancholy type
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
literature aristocracy ethics
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
literature amusing providing
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
literature today influence
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today. Charles Simic
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.