Literature Quotes - Page 21

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

You have to make it happen.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.