Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of… — Emily Post 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
[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
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for… — Morra Quatro Copy Share Image
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
“Every naskar material that exists outside the books, exists only to redirect you to the canon - the gifs, the voice recordings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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