With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical. — Barbet Schroeder Copy Share Image
Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness… — David Small Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly,… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of… — Zakaria Tamer Copy Share Image
“From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
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