Literature Quotes - Page 44

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Smell is a word, perfume is literature.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Leave the rest to the gods.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.