Literature Quotes - Page 130
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.199
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press
R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.26, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Philip Sington (2012). “The Valley of Unknowing”, p.77, Random House
Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
Letter to J.B.Sutton, December 21, 1942.
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
Peter Brian Medawar (1973). “The hope of progress: a scientist looks at problems in philosophy, literature and science”, Anchor