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Literature + Illness = Illness — Roberto Bolano
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the… — Walt Whitman
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. — Doris Lessing
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Young people are thoughtless as a rule. — Homer
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related… — Swami Vivekananda
NOVEL, n. A short story padded... — Ambrose Bierce
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write… — Groucho Marx
Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks. — William Shakespeare
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the… — John Burroughs
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. — Sidney Hook
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the… — Johannes Kepler
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I… — Jacob Bronowski
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. — John Steinbeck
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which… — Simone Weil
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity… — Adolf Hitler

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