Literature Quotes - Page 63

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

Truth is always a delusion.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

Religions get lost as people do.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.