Literature Quotes - Page 112

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

My mom died when I was 8.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.