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
There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart… — David Small Copy Share Image
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a… — John Wain Copy Share Image
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
“But those who believe that flowers grow in vases don't understand anything about literature. The library has now become her first-aid kit,… — Antonio Iturbe Copy Share Image
Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891,… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
