Literature Quotes - Page 118

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.