Literature Quotes - Page 150

Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

Comics are a gateway into literature.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.