Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In most countries, property law means that people can take possession of manuscripts and, in some circumstances, a lone copy of a… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
“Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping… — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
![“[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/52f/gordon-s-wood-13199_ambition_john-adams-s-vividly-descriptive-prose-i_1856135.jpg)
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