If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet… — Andrew Denton Copy Share Image
“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature. — Tanikella Bharani Copy Share Image
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As my grandmother Shamshad Begum was a noted classical singer, who had settled down in London, we used to receive several people… — Saira Banu Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach;… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my… — David Louden Copy Share Image
Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be… — Sjon Copy Share Image
I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or… — Tom Cain Copy Share Image
Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not… — Mario Copy Share Image
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
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