Literature Quotes - Page 54

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.