Literature Quotes - Page 75

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.