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“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the… — Alan Moore 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
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...the materials of genre - specifically the paired genres of horror and the fantastic - in no way require the constrictions of… — Peter Straub (Author Copy Share Image
All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
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My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
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I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and… — Henry Jenner Copy Share Image
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker 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
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