Literature Quotes - Page 23

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.