"All literature is written by the old to……" — Laura Riding
"All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents."
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Laura Riding
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14 Quotes by Laura Riding
Laura Riding has 14 quotes on this site.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is…
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Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem…
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I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in…
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what…
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end…
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If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you…
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Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
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More Adolescents Quotes
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every…
— Phyllis McGinley
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The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
— Erik Erikson
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Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express…
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at…
— Harold S. Kushner
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It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find…
— Norman Rush
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology…
— George Bernard Shaw
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In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it…
— Lois Capps
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The international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the…
— Unknown Author
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
— Suzanne Collins
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