Literature Quotes - Page 87

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

I need to write to be happy.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.