Literature Quotes - Page 15

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.