Age Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Books Died Infancy Modern
“In books I mee the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In books I meet the dead as if they were alive in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
