Literature Quotes - Page 38

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Slow but steady wins the race.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

literature is the record of our discontent.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.