Literature Quotes - Page 109

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.