Literature Quotes - Page 86

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

A great speech is literature.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.