When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done… — M. G. Vassanji Copy Share Image
Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best… — Lyudmila Ulitskaya Copy Share Image
First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams… — Lisa Simeone Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
“A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words,… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular"… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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