Our Literature Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

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
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to… — Andrzej Wajda
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. — David Strathairn
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the… — John Drinkwater
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many individuals… — Unknown Author
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never… — Ian Shoales
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, — Mstislav Rostropovich
These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are… — Toi Derricotte
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the… — Unknown Author
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything… — Donald Harington
If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read… — Chris Abani
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai Berdyaev
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty… — Henry Ford
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught… — Richard Dawkins
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have… — Rick Riordan
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in… — Robert A. Heinlein
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret… — John Steinbeck

Who Wrote These Our Literature Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Our Literature Quotes as follows: