Quotes about literature
literature causes pacifist
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. Fredrik Bajer
literature term representatives
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka
literature body crosses
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
literature world delight
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
literature able willing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
literature speak
Writers speak stench.
literature illiterate
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. J. D. Salinger
literature knows do-you-know
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
literature height periods
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. Irwin Shaw
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,
literature prosperity
Prosperity is full of friends. Euripides
literature subservient
Literature is subservient to nothing but truth. Gao Xingjian
literature moral ethical
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.
literature middle-east knows
You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East. Chris Matthews
literature remarks
Remarks are not literature. Gertrude Stein
literature knows do-you-know
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
literature lessons repetition
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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.
literature
Leave the rest to the gods. Horace
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.