Literature Quotes - Page 31

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Evil is whatever distracts.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

You are no better than you should be.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.