Literature Quotes - Page 66

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

My weapon is literature

Literature is the expression of society.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.