Literature Quotes - Page 121

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed to other beauties and the complexities of character and world.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

History takes time. History makes memory.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.