Literature Quotes - Page 10

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.