“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is the most legal drug of all. And the most peaceful way of escaping reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous 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
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share
Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer… — Anonymous Copy Share
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share
