It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —ANDRÉ MAUROIS” — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
“Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn Copy Share Image
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him,… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial… — David E. Fessenden Copy Share Image
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime,… — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My heart love till now for sweared sight, for I never saw true beauty till this night. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that. — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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