Literature Quotes - Page 91

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.

All literature is political.

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.