Literature Quotes - Page 60

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

All things are only transitory.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.