Literature Quotes - Page 16

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

I never really separated painting and literature.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Literature is the history of the soul.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.