Literature Quotes - Page 88

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Literature has become my life.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.