Literature Quotes - Page 82

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

The answer is there is no answer.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.