I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist… — Joseph Fiennes 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
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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