The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Much as there are things about our own life stories that we can learn only from the systematic study of our dreams,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no… — Pierre Janet Copy Share Image
“In his entire life, Father Abaddon Sohar had never seen anything like what was in that cell, and he knew instantly that at least… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“How can they possibly know such things? No member of this family reads novels, except for mass-market bestsellers, clichéd thrillers with contrived… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Regency literature was too coal-y for me, too long-winded and describey. I preferred modern books where you had to read other books… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie. — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums,… — David Blaine 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
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to… — Flea Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas… — Panio Gianopoulos Copy Share Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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