Quotes about literature
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Walter Benjamin
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature motto following
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Vladimir Nabokov
literature moral censorship
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature merit findings
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. Lord Byron
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
literature classic produce
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
literature doe students
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
literature mythology humans
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean
literature projects
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. Norman Ralph Augustine
literature needs easy
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
literature tasks more-time
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
literature firsts
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. Novalis
literature can-do
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
literature honest being-honest
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. Ellen Glasgow
literature prophet destroyed
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. Niccolo Machiavelli
literature may gains
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
literature kind speak
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. John Green
literature problem subtlety
One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety. Mo Yan
literature rational exertion
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? Mary Wollstonecraft
literature becoming caught
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician. Mark Haddon
literature dry information
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious. Paul Auster
literature bears pockets
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. Moliere
literature prose verses
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
literature theater please
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
literature helping
Literature helps us transcend ourselves. Mohsin Hamid
literature mercy cruelty
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. Ken Kesey