Literature Quotes - Page 65

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

History develops, art stands still.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

The future belongs to crowds.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.