Literature Quotes - Page 40

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

A diary means yes indeed.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.