Literature Quotes - Page 69

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.