Literature Quotes - Page 28

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.