Literature Quotes - Page 42

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.