It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
As a woman of colour, as a person who is a minority, I believe its important that other people know about my… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Marie-Louise Mallet emphasizes the decreased control over the experience of listening as opposed to looking: To look is to choose one’s point… — Marie-Louise Mallet Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able… — William James Copy Share Image
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that… — James Payn Copy Share Image
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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