To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,” — Jane Fletcher Geniesse Copy Share Image
The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly… — Moshin Hamid Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us.… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
