Literature Quotes - Page 18

Reason is not what decides love.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

I write-down to speak-up.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.