Material Quotes

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Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of… — Milan Kundera
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate… — Oscar Wilde
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their… — Maya Angelou
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.… — Terry Eagleton
NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree… — Bill Maher
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all… — Ian Mcewan
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an… — Alice Sebold
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing,… — Alan Moore
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it,… — Twyla Tharp
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never… — Tom Wolfe
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. — Willa Cather
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. — Michael Cunningham
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself. — Henry Rollins
Donâ€™t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you… — Anne Lamott
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even… — Jorge Luis Borges
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object… — Simone de Beauvoir
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and… — Charles Baudelaire
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about lifeâ€”they have never felt its breath, its heartbeatâ€”however much they have seen… — Boris Pasternak
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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