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
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno 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
The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.... Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide… — David Selbourne Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“A month later the law student leaves you for one of her classmates, tells you that it was great but she has… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and… — Fred Alan Wolf 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
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