Literature Quotes - Page 25

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?