Literature Quotes - Page 6

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.