Literature Quotes - Page 115

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.