Literature Quotes - Page 17

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

The world remains ever the same.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.