Literature Quotes - Page 149

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.