Literature Quotes - Page 71

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.