Literature Quotes - Page 100

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Remarks are not literature.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.