Bores Quote by John Berryman

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,

— John Berryman

“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and…

— John Berryman

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

— Pankaj Mishra

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final…

— James Weldon Johnson

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

— Shirley Hazzard

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's…

— Meryl Streep

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

Absolutely No doubt: you are a great Literature, but if you Don't Have Been Any Assumptions About social situation, then have been worthless all…

— Mak_786