Books Quote by Monique Wittig Download Open image “It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.” — Monique Wittig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Literature Machines War
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they may. He says to them throwing his head back with pride, poor wretches of women, if you eat him who will go to work in the fields, who will produce food consumer goods, who will make… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate. — Monique Wittig Copy Share
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/ I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.” — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember. The wild roses flower in the woods. Your hand is torn on the bushes gathering the mulberries and strawberries you refresh yourself with. You run to catch the young… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image