Literature Quotes - Page 147

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

Every President hates the Press.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Literature is achieved anxiety.

[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.