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
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
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison 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
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists,… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
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