Literature Quotes - Page 26

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Literature is my Utopia

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I expected more from literature than from real, naked life.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.